Extracting jar to specified directory

Question

I wanted to extract one of my jars to specified directory using jar command line utility.

If I understand this right -C option should to the tr

Answer 1

In case you don't want to change your current working directory, it might be easier to run extract command in a subshell like this.

mkdir -p "/path/to/target-dir"
(cd "/path/to/target-dir" && exec jar -xf "/path/to/your/war-file.war")

You can then execute this script from any working directory.

[ Thanks to David Schmitt for the subshell trick ]