On 05/12/2007, Mike Marchywka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have an odd problem with xargs and jar. I'm not sure if I can > isolate a simple test > case but essentially it only seems to be taking some of the input files. > > This seems to work suggesting the file list is acceptable to jar: > > $ more latest65day | jar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wtf2.zip>jarlog2.txt > > this, however, only includes a some files, apparently lopping off certain > directories: > > $ more latest65day | xargs jar -cvf wtf2.zip>jarlog.txt > > > $ xargs --version > GNU xargs version 4.3.8 > Built using GNU gnulib version 2007-05-26 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/e/new/temp > $ jar -V > jar (fastjar) 0.92-gcc > > Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 Bryan Burns > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation > > Thoughts on diagnostic process of known problems? At first, I thought it had > to do with > errors encountered during the jarring but I think I've eliminated all of > those ( missing files > mostly). Also, as I indicated before, my configuration is suspect but I > wouldn't expect it > to cause problems like this.
I expect you've got this covered, but last week when I had a similar problem with xargs and tar, it turned out that my problem was that I hadn't read the xargs manpage (not recently anyway). Its second sentence is "xargs ... executes the command ... one or more times ...". The solution was to use tar's --files-from option. For jar: -@, see above (except that you should redirect jar's standard input to your file-of-files with "<latest65day", rather than using "more" and a pipe. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.unix.shell/search?q=useless+use+of+cat ;). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
