Description
See the out of cat $KNOX_HOME/bin/shell.cfg
#Created from jar:file:/Users/darumugam/workspace/knox/local-knox-install/knox-incubating-0.4.0-SNAPSHOT/bin/shell.jar!/META-INF/launcher.cfg
#Thu Oct 03 15:50:16 PDT 2013
main.class=org.apache.hadoop.gateway.shell.Shell
class.path=../lib/.jar;../dep/.jar;../ext;../ext/*.jar
There are too many jars under lib and dep.
shell.jar should not add all those jars to its classpath.