Hi Gurus

I am getting below error while opening a shar file

dybip15 $ ls -lrt
total 41851634
----------   1 prdur      prdur          122 Jan  1  1970 @LongLink
-rwxr-x---   1 prdur      prdur      2039152640 May  3 22:03 Hemel_CAR_data.tar
-rwxr-x---   1 prdur      prdur      3034818560 May  4 12:56 Skyport_CAR_data.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 prdur      prdur      798474240 May  9 13:42 UDRG-output-and-config.tar
drwxr-x---   3 prdur      prdur         1024 May 10 13:28 udrg
drwxr-x---   3 prdur      prdur           96 May 10 13:28 locid
drwxr-x---   3 prdur      prdur         1024 May 10 13:29 udrgr
-rwxr-xr-x   1 prdur      prdur      15555411132 May 28 15:38 revenueassurance.shar
drwxr-x---   3 prdur      prdur         1024 May 28 15:49 udrgc
-rw-r-----   1 prdur      prdur       132790 May 28 16:33 test.shar
drwxr-x---   2 prdur      prdur         1024 May 28 16:46 geneva
dybip15 $ sh revenueassurance.shar
sh: revenueassurance.shar: Cannot find or open the file.

That's a 15-gigabyte script file..? . How much memory do you have?

Basically it is an shared archive.... I know bad choice but is it failing for memory? physical memory is around 3 GB.....

Some systems only allow special 64-bit executables to open files larger than 4 gigs, I suspect your OS may be one of them.

It's not a shared archive, its a shell archive.
See man shar . It's one of those commands that used to be taught on training courses and nobody ever uses. There are much better ways of moving data.

What you you get for:

ls -lad revenueassurance.shar

ls -la | sed -n l

If I recall correctly, HP sometimes shipped support files in the form shell archives.

This error message is probably coming from a read statement inside the .shar file. It probably writes a file somewhere that it tries to read afterwards.. Perhaps it tries to write in an tmp directory and there is not enough room, or perhaps one needs to be in user writeable directory before unshar'ing the file? You would need to look inside the .shar file to be sure...