diff --git a/get.sh b/get.sh
index 9ac4d15bf0..de76ae04f3 100755
--- a/get.sh
+++ b/get.sh
@@ -323,8 +323,12 @@ getBinaryOpenjdk()
 				if [[ $jar_name == *zip || $jar_name == *jar ]]; then
 					unzip -q $jar_name -d $extract_dir
 				else
-					# some debug-image tar has parent folder. This is like gtar --strip 1
-					mkdir dir.$$ && cd dir.$$ && gzip -cd ../$jar_name | tar xof - && cd * && tar cf - . | (cd ../../$extract_dir && tar xpf -) && cd ../.. && rm -rf dir.$$
+					# some debug-image tar has parent folder ... strip it
+					if tar --version | grep GNU > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+						gzip -cd $jar_name | tar xof - -C $extract_dir --strip 1
+					else
+						mkdir dir.$$ && cd dir.$$ && gzip -cd ../$jar_name | tar xof - && cd * && tar cf - . | (cd ../../$extract_dir && tar xpf -) && cd ../.. && rm -rf dir.$$
+					fi
 				fi
 			else
 				if [ -d "$SDKDIR/openjdkbinary/tmp" ]; then