I am working on a shell command for Ansible in Linux, I have a .war file, and I need only tasks.properties file from it. I tried the below, but it extracts the parent directory folder WEB-INF, so i get WEB-INF/sub/test.properties extracted, when I just need the test.properties outside
unzip test.war "*test.properties*"
I also tried
jar xf test.war test.properties
This also extracted the main folder, and WEB-INF/sub/test.properties.
When I ls , I just want test.properties to appear in the location where I am running this, any suggestions on how to do that ? I am very new to linux / ansible , any help is appreciated
>Solution :
The -j flag is exactly what you need:
unzip -j test.war "*test.properties*"
From the docs:
-j
junk paths. The archive’s directory structure is not recreated; all
files are deposited in the extraction directory (by default, the
current one).