diff between -cvf and cf

[swathi valasala]

jar cvf example.war .
jar -cvf example.war . whats the difference between them please send reply im using windows when i used the jar -cvf example.war. is it correct
[ February 29, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

A few things. First, please do not post in all uppercase -- read this for more information.

Also, please take the time to choose the correct forum for your posts. This forum is for questions on Servlets.

This post has been moved to a more appropriate forum.

[Rob Spoor]

The v stands for verbose, which means it's exactly the same except cvf prints a lot more information to your console.

[Ben Souther]

The v is for verbose.

If you type just jar at the command line, you should see a help screen with a list of the switches and what they do:

[bsouther@bsouther test]$ jar
Usage: jar {ctxui}[vfm0Me] [jar-file] [manifest-file] [entry-point] [-C dir] files ...
Options:
    -c  create new archive
    -t  list table of contents for archive
    -x  extract named (or all) files from archive
    -u  update existing archive
   [B] -v  generate verbose output on standard output[/B]
    -f  specify archive file name
    -m  include manifest information from specified manifest file
    -e  specify application entry point for stand-alone application 
        bundled into an executable jar file
    -0  store only; use no ZIP compression
    -M  do not create a manifest file for the entries
    -i  generate index information for the specified jar files
    -C  change to the specified directory and include the following file