Extracting jar to specified directory

Question

I wanted to extract one of my jars to specified directory using jar command line utility.

If I understand this right -C option should to the trick but when I try

jar xvf myJar.jar -C ./directoryToExtractTo 

I am getting usage information from my jar utility, so I am doing something wrong.

Is the thing I want achievable with jar or do I need to manually move my jar and there invoke

jar xvf myJar.jar 

Answer 1

jars use zip compression so you can use any unzip utility.

Example:

$ unzip myJar.jar -d ./directoryToExtractTo

Answer 2

It's better to do this.

Navigate to the folder structure you require

Use the command

jar -xvf  'Path_to_ur_Jar_file'