Thanks for the copy/paste of your linux command line. Also thanks to everyone who helped and pointed out the errors.
This thread and the Readme for recovering a wallet helped me and my non-existant linux skills recover 1.14BTC that I thought was lost.
I had a backup of just about 10MB that didnt want to load into the app anymore. Got it decrypted and sent to a new address using wallet-tool, but I struggled for a few hours using VMware, Kubuntu and installing JDK/Maven and getting it (wallet-tool) to compile without any errors. 2nd VM and different versions of the utils got me through it.
Thanks!