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Re: exotic shell sought

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: exotic shell sought
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:22:55 +0000
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Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> This is a self extracting shell script.
> (the first line is  #!/bin/sh)
> 
> Unfortunately it fails, with a 
> dirname too many arguments
> error.
> This old shell probably has a different
> string quoting mechanism.

I'm afraid you're probably going to have to trace down the error more
precisely before we can give any hints.

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