On 07/05/2013 12:50 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > jar xf myApp.jar > > > that's not the right command to launch a java app, you surely mean > java -jar yourappname.jar .... No. jar is similar to tar, bar, etc its stands for Java ARchive, and it works very much like tar does, right down to a similar set of command line arguments. What he is trying to do above is to extract files from the file myApp.jar > > FC-- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org