[lokisetup] makeself compression and hidden files

[Daniel Aleksandrow]

sounds good :-)

Dan.a

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 09:03, Stephane Peter wrote:
> Very good point. Using . won't have any significant impact, other than
> the fact that now dot files would get included as well. I guess it
> would be the most simple solution, there would not even be a need for
> new command-line option.
>
> On Nov 11, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>
> > Stephane Peter wrote:
> >> I guess the main reason I didn't bother with this was with the
> >> potentially dangerous reference to the .. directory. I guess your
> >> regular expression would take care of that, assuming of course it is
> >> portable, which I believe it is.
> >
> > .[^.]* expands to '.[^.]*' if no dot file exists i.e. you will get
> > an error from tar. You can make it expand to nothing with "shopt -s
> > nullglob" but that might be bash specific. Alternative would be to
> > just use . instead of any wildcard. Filenames in the archive look a
> > bit different then (start with ./) but otherwise the result is the
> > same.
> >
> > cu
> > Ludwig
> >
> > --
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> Stéphane Peter
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