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Re: shar util problem
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Eric Blake |
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Re: shar util problem |
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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:38:50 -0600 |
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According to Jagan M on 3/23/2009 6:23 AM:
> Hi,
>
> I had a problem with command "shar" and "shar --help" shows that bugs can be
> reported to address@hidden, so sending this mail.
Not a bug in shar, but in your usage.
>
> Problem:
> my PWD were having 5 *.CC files, 5 *.hh files, 5 *.txt files and one
> makefile.
> At this point I tried
> $shar -T *.* > homework.shar
> This resulted in WHOPPING more than 250 MB shar file.
*.* matches homework.shar. So you were trying to create a shar file that
recursively includes itself. This doesn't really work, but it sure
creates large files before it fails.
>
> But then, the next line worked perfect.
> $shar -T *.cc *.hh *.txt makefile > homework.shar
Yep, that excluded homework.shar, and explains your smaller file.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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