Re: Is there really no wildcard adding for "jar -cvf my.jar cl*****\*.class"

Catherina Svensson wrote:
> When I try to execute a jar command like the following:
> 
> jar -cvf my.jar cl*****\*.class
> 
> then JVM gives me an error about non-existing files/folders.

> Is there really no flag/option to let users pass wildcards for jar
adding operations ?

This would, I guess, depend on the JVM and the platform that the JVM is
running on.

On a Unix or Linux system, you could simply remove the backslash and the
shell would do the expansion for you, which would give you exactly what
you'd want.  But then on Unix and Linux systems, the convention is that
the shell does the wildcard expansion rather than the program being
invoked.  And Java originally comes from Sun, so it wouldn't be surprising
if they went with the Unix idiom on that.

Of course there could be some JVM out there that does the wildcard
expansion
itself.

   - Logan