What version of javac built my jar?

Question

How can I tell what version of the Java compiler was used to build a jar? I have a jar file, and it could have been built in any one of three JDKs. We need to know exactly

Answer 1

Following up on @David J. Liszewski's answer, I ran the following commands to extract the jar file's manifest on Ubuntu:

# Determine the manifest file name:
$ jar tf LuceneSearch.jar | grep -i manifest
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

# Extract the file:
$ sudo jar xf LuceneSearch.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

# Print the file's contents:
$ more META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.2
Created-By: 1.7.0_25-b30 (Oracle Corporation)
Main-Class: org.wikimedia.lsearch.config.StartupManager

Answer 2

I build a little bash script (on github) based on Davids suggestion using the file command