Package: arj
Version: 3.10.22-4
Severity: normal
This works:
% arj a /tmp/arc2.arj /mnt/c/My\ Documents/No* ; echo $?
ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia. [07 Dec 2007]
Creating archive : /tmp/arc2.arj
Adding /mnt/c/My Documents/Notes on PDL.doc 59.9%
Adding /mnt/c/My Documents/Notes on PDL.zip 100.0%
2 file(s)
0
This doesn't:
% arj a /tmp/arc1.arj /mnt/c/My\ Documents/N* ; echo $?
ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia. [07 Dec 2007]
Creating archive : /tmp/arc1.arj
0 file(s)
Can't find /mnt/c/My Documents/Notes on PDL.doc
Can't find /mnt/c/My Documents/Notes on PDL.zip
Found 2 error(s)!
0
The only difference is the the letter "o" in "No*". I fired
up 'strace', and after some trial and error discovered
the shorter wildcard "N*" matched a directory, and the shell
expansion put said directory first:
% file /mnt/c/My\ Documents/Naaa
/mnt/c/My Documents/Naaa: directory
% arj a /tmp/arc.arj /mnt/c/My\ Documents/Naaa "/mnt/c/My Documents/Notes
on PDL.doc" ; echo $?
ARJ32 v 3.10, Copyright (c) 1998-2004, ARJ Software Russia. [07 Dec 2007]
Updating archive : /tmp/arc.arj
Archive created: 2007-12-17 03:54:22, modified: 2007-12-17 03:54:22
0 file(s)
Can't find /mnt/c/My Documents/Notes on PDL.doc
Found 1 error(s)!
1
So 'arj' parses 'Naaa' as the base directory, and looks for the other
files within. It's uncommon parsing behavior for a file type
to act like a switch, but there nothing syntactically wrong with that.
The bug is how the resulting error message tends to mislead users who
use wildcards and may not know whether their first file is a directory.
The error message should print full pathnames instead of
relative pathnames, e.g.:
Archive created: 2007-12-17 03:54:22, modified: 2007-12-17 03:54:22
0 file(s)
Can't find /mnt/c/My\ Documents/Naaa/mnt/c/My Documents/Notes on PDL.doc
Hope this helps...
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