Help with shar needed!

[Marten Terpstra]

In article <1990Oct8.181633.6838 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>
>	Hi.  I'm having some problems trying to run the shar program.  I have
>some files in a directory that I want to put in a shell archive, so I cd to the
>directory, then type "shar * > shar.file".  This produces a 5-minute wait, and
>then a "write failed, disk full" error, as shar keeps writing the same stuff
>over and over ad infinitum.  Anyone have any help for me?
>

The solution is quite simple. When typing shar * > shar.file your shell will
also include the file shar.file to the wildcard. This because the file
shar.file is created before the wildcard is fully expanded. Therefore it will
put this output file again in the output file etc. This causes the disk full
message.
So make sure the output file is not in the wildcard e.g. by putting the output
file in another directory.

Marten
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