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<h2><a name="unzip">Unjar/Untar/Unwar/Unzip</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Unzips a zip-, war-, tar- or jarfile.</p>
<p>For JDK 1.1 "last modified time" field is set to current time instead of being
carried from the archive file.</p>
<p><a href="../CoreTypes/patternset.html">PatternSet</a>s are used to select files to extract
<I>from</I> the archive. If no patternset is used, all files are extracted.
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<p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s may be used used to select archived files
to perform unarchival upon.
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<p>File permissions will not be restored on extracted files.</p>
<p>The untar task recognizes the long pathname entries used by GNU tar.<p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">src</td>
<td valign="top">archive file to expand.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes, if filesets are not used.</td>
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<td valign="top">dest</td>
<td valign="top">directory where to store the expanded files.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">overwrite</td>
<td valign="top">Overwrite files, even if they are newer than the
corresponding entries in the archive (true or false, default is
true).</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">compression</td>
<td valign="top">compression method for untar. Allowable values are
"none", "gzip" and "bzip2". Default is
"none".</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><code><unzip src="${tomcat_src}/tools-src.zip" dest="${tools.home}"/></code></p>
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<p><code>
<gunzip src="tools.tar.gz"/><br>
<untar src="tools.tar" dest="${tools.home}"/>
</code></p>
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<p><pre>
<unzip src="${tomcat_src}/tools-src.zip"
dest="${tools.home}">
<patternset>
<include name="**/*.java"/>
<exclude name="**/Test*.java"/>
</patternset>
</unzip>
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<p><pre>
<unzip dest="${tools.home}">
<patternset>
<include name="**/*.java"/>
<exclude name="**/Test*.java"/>
</patternset>
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="**/*.zip"/>
<exclude name="**/tmp*.zip"/>
</fileset>
</unzip>
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