[lokisetup] makeself, tar command
Ryan C. Gordon
icculus at clutteredmind.org
Wed Feb 27 15:50:28 EST 2002
> Now why would that fail though ?
The shell doesn't expand wildcards if there's no match.
[icculus at gemini /mp3/pr0n/wifeysworld.com]$ ls valentine*
valentine1.mpg valentine2.mpg
[icculus at gemini /mp3/pr0n/wifeysworld.com]$ ls dfdfdf*
/bin/ls: dfdfdf*: No such file or directory
As you can see from ls's output, it's actually looking for a file with an
asterisk in the second run of the program, since bash didn't expand (or
remove) the wildcard.
If there're no dotfiles, tar wonders what to do with a file called ".[^.]" ...
This doesn't stop makeself from working over here, but the error message
is a little disconcerting if you aren't expecting it.
Perhaps we can replace the filelist to tar with a mixture of find and grep?
--ryan.
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