Ant unzip only one file

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Learn more. Extract only a specific file from a zipped archive to a given directory Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 7 months ago. Active 30 days ago. Viewed k times. Is there a command like the following: unzip -d. Improve this question. Naftuli Kay Naftuli Kay Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You can extract just the text to standard output with the -p option: unzip -p myarchive.

Or with fuse-zip : mkdir myarchive. Improve this answer. Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Will it work for binary files, say a jar file? TKKocheran: Jar files are zips, so the unzip and fuse-zip methods will obviously work. I haven't had the chance to test it out yet, can you see any issues using the first command above to extract binary files? TKKocheran: There's no problem, -p extracts the file as-is -c does text conversion.

I think the answer of Myles is more elegant, because it doesn't require output redirection and it preserves file attributes. If no patternset is used, all files are extracted. Untar supports arbitrary resource collections. Prior to Apache Ant 1. You can define filename transformations by using a nested mapper element. The default mapper is the identity mapper. The untar task recognizes the long pathname entries used by GNU tar. Please note that different ZIP tools handle timestamps differently when it comes to applying timezone offset calculations of files.

Some ZIP libraries will store the timestamps as they've been read from the filesystem while others will modify the timestamps both when reading and writing the files to make all timestamps use the same timezone.

A ZIP archive created by one library may extract files with "wrong timestamps" when extracted by another library. Learn more. Ant: unzip multiple files Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 3 months ago. Active 7 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 3k times. How to unzip multiple files with Ant?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. From the documentation PatternSets are used to select files to extract from the archive. In my directory I have test1.

I want ant to extract everything inside them and save it to out — tony. Have you read my answer? Why are you using a patternset?

The other files shouldn't be extracted".