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I am trying to view the content of a file ( in linux )that is inside a .war file without having to extract the war file. For example inside the war file i am trying to see the content of a file called aa.txt and which is under /path/here/ inside the war file.

Slava Semushin
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  • Possible duplicate of [Linux command for extracting war file?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/3833578/608639), [One liner for listing contents of file within war file](https://stackoverflow.com/q/23000741/608639), [how to list the contents of a jar file inside a war file](https://stackoverflow.com/q/3238285/608639), [Seeing contents of war file without extracting](https://stackoverflow.com/q/34533367/608639), [How to extract .war files in java? ZIP vs JAR](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7882745), etc. – jww Jul 16 '19 at 14:19

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jar has x option for that:

$ jar -help 2>&1 | grep extract
    -x  extract named (or all) files from archive

Let's try it:

$ jar tvf target/my.war | grep test-data
  1811 Tue Jun 21 19:34:50 CEST 2016 WEB-INF/classes/test/spring/test-data.properties
$ jar xvf target/my.war WEB-INF/classes/test/spring/test-data.properties
 inflated: WEB-INF/classes/test/spring/test-data.properties
$ ls -l WEB-INF/classes/test/spring/test-data.properties
-rw-rw-r--. 1 coder coder 1811 Jun 21 19:34 WEB-INF/classes/test/spring/test-data.properties
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