How to uncompress a WAR file using command Programming Add comments Jan 102012 How to uncompress a WAR file using command Answer: To un-compress a Java Web Archives file (*.war), you can use the command # jar xvf my-app.war Related posts: Changing the default Java environment in Ubuntu Compress and decompress file using 7zip Determine file type using the file command Install Java Runtime environment under Ubuntu Install sun-java-jdk in Ubuntu 10.04 Leave a Reply Cancel reply Name (required) E-mail (required) URI Your Comment You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>