How to execute jar with command line arguments

java command-line ant jar executable-jar
samarth picture samarth · Jul 21, 2011 · Viewed 81.5k times · Source

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Passing arguments to JAR which is required by Java Interpreter

how to provide command line input to a file which is in a jar I have a jar file hello.jar with some say execute.java file which i want to execute from command line with two arguments;how can i achive this i have mentioned a executable.java as a main class in a manifest file and using ant i have to run this file from ant run with command line arguments

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Answer

duffymo picture duffymo · Jul 21, 2011

Try this in the command shell:

java -cp your-classpath-dependencies-here -jar hello.jar "arg1" "arg2"

Do it in Ant with the <java> built-in task:

http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/java.html

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