Bug #29154 for Archive-Tar: ptar does not allows wilcards in 'FILE'

Tue Sep 04 07:01:46 2007 CHORNY [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

ptar does not allows wilcards in 'FILE'

ptar -c -v -z -f a.tar.gz *.txt returns Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! .txt files exist I suppose that this code is incorrect find( sub { push @files, $File::Find::name; print $File::Find::name.$/ if $verbose }, @ARGV ); File::Find::find second parameter is list of directories. ActiveState perl v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread Binary build 820 -- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net

Tue Sep 04 07:52:31 2007 kane [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #29154] ptar does not allows wilcards in 'FILE'
Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:30:14 +0200
To:	bug-Archive-Tar [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Jos I. Boumans" <kane [...] cpan.org>

Hi Alexandr, On 04 Sep 2007, at 13:01, Alexandr Ciornii via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> ptar -c -v -z -f a.tar.gz *.txt > returns > Cowardly refusing to create empty archive! > > .txt files exist > > I suppose that this code is incorrect > find( sub { push @files, $File::Find::name; > print $File::Find::name.$/ if $verbose }, @ARGV ); > > File::Find::find second parameter is list of directories. > > ActiveState perl v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread > Binary build 820

* expansion is done by your shell, perl will never see the '*' passed, as by then it's already expanded. To see what's actually going on, try changing the 'ptar' command to 'echo *.txt' and see what is returned. Good luck, Jos

Tue Sep 04 07:52:40 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Sep 17 10:53:10 2007 kane [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

Sun Nov 11 05:32:34 2007 kane [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'rejected'