view content of file in a jar file

[Herbert Wilson]

Hi,
Is there a way to view the content of a file that is in a jar file. I can get a list of the files in a jar file by 'jar -tvf name.jar', but is there a way to view the content of a particular file without extracting the jar file.

[Joel McNary]

A jar file is juat a ZIP file. You can open it with any .ZIP utility (such as WinZIP if you're on a Windows platform), and (if the utility lets you -- WinZIP does), view the files there.

[Herbert Wilson]

Thanks Joel. Is there an UNIX utility that lets u view the content of the file?

[Loren Rosen]

On unix/linux you can do the following, to extract foo.java from name.jar:
jar xf foo.java < name.jar
That will write foo.java to stdout.