RFR: 8173970: jar tool should have a way to extract to a directory

[Lance Andersen]

On Mar 11, 2021, at 9:29 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com<mailto:alan.bateman at oracle.com>> wrote:



On 04/03/2021 12:01, Lance Andersen wrote:
Hi Jaikiran

From https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/15/docs/specs/man/jar.html

The jar man page includes the following :
 The syntax for the jar command resembles the syntax for the tar command.

Because of the above, I feel that we should support:

———
-C
—dir
—directory
————

The addition of ‘-dir’ adds support for an option used by some of the other java command line tools.

Is --directory needed with this proposal?

I agree with the suggest to create the directory so that it's consistent with other tools.

The only reason I included it is for completeness with tar which the jar options were originally derived from.

Could go either way though

Best
Lance

-Alan.

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