Re: shar util problem

[Eric Blake]

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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.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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