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Reputation: 9010

Why am I getting this weird output when creating a JAR file from commandline?

I wrote a HelloWorld class in a folder "D:\Workspaces\Workspace\Packaging Programs into JAR Files\src". I am trying to create a Jar file containing this HelloWorld.class file, following this tutorial. So I opened cmd in the src directory and executed the following command.

jar cv HelloWorld.jar HelloWorld.class

I got this:

D:\Workspaces\Workspace\Packaging Programs i
nto JAR Files\src>jar cv HelloWorld.jar HelloWorld.class
HelloWorld.jar : no such file or directory
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nto JAR Files\src>

Why is this happening? Did I make a mistake?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 471

Answers (1)

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 521073

You are missing the -f parameter which tells the JAR tool to output to a file rather than the console:

jar cvf HelloWorld.jar HelloWorld.class

Update:

You could achieve the same result as above without the -f flag by telling JAR to send the output to the standard output, and then redirecting into the actual JAR file you want. Hence, the following would accomplish the same as above:

jar cv HelloWorld.class > HelloWorld.jar

It should be noted that piping the output from JAR into an output file is a feature of the OS and not a feature of Java.

Upvotes: 4

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