extracting portion of jar to a path

Question

Hi,

I am using the follwing command and my intention is to extract only DYEDistinctAppServer.topology from discovery1-full-8.1.0-07-10-2010_1055.jar at data/product/template-topologies/DYEDistinctAppServer.topology path.

Command:

jar -xf discovery1-full-8.1.0-07-10-2010_1055.jar -C data/product/template-topologies/DYEDistinctAppServer.topology

Instead of extracting the files, it prompts me that I am using the command incorrectly and dumps out the help with all the various options.

Is there any syntax error as it is shown in the usage part. I am using AIX OS.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The option -C is to set the directory in which jar should run, not paths in the JAR file. Try:

jar -xf discovery1-full-8.1.0-07-10-2010_1055.jar data/product/template-topologies/DYEDistinctAppServer.topology