makeself, tar command

Timothee Besset ttimo at idsoftware.com
Wed Feb 27 05:19:00 EST 2002


got the following message when running makeself:

setup.data/postinstall.sh
setup.data/setup.xml
setup.sh
tar: .[^.]*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

this is related to the line:
(cd "$archdir"; tar $TAR_ARGS - * .[^.]* | $GZIP_CMD ) >> "$archname" || { echo Aborting; exit 1; }

which expands to tar cvf - * .[^.]* | gzip -c9 here

I'm not sure what the pattern does?

TTimo



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