try jar -tvf myarchive.jar

try
jar tf myarchive.jar

jar sticks to the syntax of tar, which means it reads from the standard
input normally. That's why you need the "f" switch.

Regards,
       Michael

jar tvf my.jar

Try
    jar -tf myarchive.jar

Without -f option, the jar program expects the contents of the jarfile
from standard input. If you use
    jar -t myarchive.jar
you actually request the jar prog to list the entry 'myarchive.jar' from
a jarfile coming from stdin. Because you don't type anything on stdin it
just keeps waiting (if you would type something and hit return, you'll
get an error).
You could use your form by redirecting the contents of the jarfile to stdin:
    jar -t < myarchive.jar
HTH,

What does

jar -tf myarchive.jar

do?

jar tf <jarfile>

Regards,

Karsten

Try jar -tf myarchive.jar

Try
jar -tf myarchive.jar

Without the f, jar expects input from standard input (that's why it
just sat there waiting)

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

Try:
    jar -tf myarchive.jar
or
    jar -tvf myarchive.jar

-t = list contents of jar (REQUIRED)
-v = gives size and last modification date in addition to name (OPTIONAL)
-f = use the following pathname as the target jar (REQUIRED)

The -f is required to specify the the jar you want to list.

Download the documentation for the JRE/JDK you are using. The index.html
page in the docs folder has a link to Java Tools. The jar command is
described in detail there.

Chuck

jar -tf myarchive.jar ;) jar honors the tar syntax, which assumes stdin as
the source of data if no file is specified.

try this:

jar -tf jarname.jar

thnaks
hilz

RTFM: jar -tf ... should do the trick!

HTH :-)
Andreas

Did you try:

   jar -tf myarchive.jar *.*

or:

   jar tf myarchive.jar *.*

Typing 'jar' on its own will dump help text on the console.

I hope this helps.

Anthony Borla

P.S.

For what it is worth, the UNIX 'tar' command [I wonder if they are related
;) ?] behaves in a similar manner - until you use the 'f' option to nominate
a file, it just happily 'waits', seemingly in limbo - and has caught me out
on more than one occasion.

1. Try

jar tf myarchive.jar

In other words, change -t to tf without the minus sign in your first
example. Your second example won't work because you have the wrong options
(-t instead of tf) and the *.* argument doesn't belong there at all.

2. (Re-) read the Java Tutorial section on Jar files. Here's the URL:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/

Rhino

You didn't specify the filename, try

jar -tf myarchive.jar

You forgot -f.

jar -tf myarchive.jar

Kind regards

   robert

The jar, tool, like its pseudo-namesake, tar, reads from the standard
input unless you specify a file with the -f option.  Thus,

jar -tf myarchive.jar

should do what you want, but the variants you tried block on input (from
the terminal, since you didn't redirect jar's standard input.

John Bollinger
jobollin@indiana.edu

Hopefully you are running a flavor of Linux.  From the command line do
this:

This will list all the files in all the jars the find command locates.
You can specify the exact name of the jar if you only want to do one
jar file.   If you don't want to use find, or you are stuck using a
Windoze machine, do this:

Get a command line unzip util for Windoze .... preferrably Info-Zip
5.51.  I'm sure you can use the jar command for this type of exercise,
but Unzip has worked for me ALL the time and jar -t works sometimes.
Actually, jar -t has NEVER worked for me.  Jar -tf jarFile.jar or jar
-vf jarFile.jar or jar -tvf jarFile.jar works decently.

Thanks.

You to have "-f" before the filename.  So, tar -t -f abc.jar, or just
tar -tf abc.jar.

From Reading The Friendly Manual (RTFM) at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/jar.html  :

    List table of contents of jar file
       jar t[v]f jarfile [inputfiles] [-Joption]
       jar t[v] [inputfiles] [-Joption]

Note that there is no dash ahead of the options. Note also that without the
"f" option, the jarfile will be taken from standard input, which is why
jar.exe keeps running without any output.
Thus, the command is:

    jar tf myarchive.jar

The documentation is downloadable and very worthwhile to have around.
jar files are just a special case of zip files.  If you have a zip tool
(e.g. WinZip), you should be able to view using that tool.  For creating
jar files with proper manifests, you are probably better off using jar.

Thomas,

You need to specify the file with the -f flag....Try this:

jar -tf myarchive.jar

Hope this helps,

-nathan