Unjar to a specific destination

Question

Is there a way to extract a jar file to a specific directory? For instance, I\'m in foo directory, which contains the subfolder bar; all my jars files are at the same level at b

Answer 1

I don't think jar supports this, but unzip does. Try:

unzip my.jar -d bar

The behaviour is the same as the jar command, because jar files are the same as zip files.

Answer 2

"Is there a way for me to do it without having to move the jar file to bar?"

You can do this by entering bar and executing the extract command from there, like this:

cd bar
jar xf ../my.jar