how to read a file inside jar

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how to read the text file inside the jar without extracting jar.

2

If you mean to ask the command,

here it is..

Viewing the Contents of a JAR File

jar tf jar-file

and for getting any txt file , just grep it

jar tf jar-file | grep "yourfile.txt"
3

What u suggested - Jar command only give the table of contents, from this "grep" extract filename alone. But, I am asking what the content exactly present in file.

if there any command like cat to view the content of the file.

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Hi all,

Got it finally...

unzip -p rt.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF which is working

Thanks

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yes you are right.