change to the specified directory and include
the following file
-E
don't include the files found in a directory
-f FILE
specify archive file name
--help
print this help, then exit
-m FILE
include manifest information from specified manifest file
-M
Do not create a manifest file for the entries
-v
generate verbose output on standard output
-V, --version
display version information
If any file is a directory then it is processed recursively.
The manifest file name and the archive file name needs to be specified
in the same order the 'm' and 'f' flags are specified.
"Example 1: to archive two class files into an archive called classes.jar:" jar cvf classes.jar Foo.class Bar.class
Example 2: use an existing manifest file 'mymanifest' and archive all the
files in the foo/ directory into 'classes.jar':
jar cvfm classes.jar mymanifest -C foo/ .
Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 Bryan Burns
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
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