wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) (07/28/90)
In article <1990Jul26.015350.1481@cimcor.mn.org> you write: >Sorry, about the tar file...my shar doesn't understand directories. > >#!/bin/sh ># This is fast_lp, a shell archive (shar 3.32) try: ls *.[ch] Blah/*.[ch] | shar -S -or- shar *.c d/*.c -or- find . -type f -print | shar -S -or- whatever No, shar will not archive a directory, per se, or automagically include a directory's contents, but dir/* will get it. -S says read filenames from stdin, for cases when the list of arguments won't fit on a max length command line. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Tucker, TuckerWare emory!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US "Tell the moon; don't tell the March Hare: He is here. Do look around."