SHAR
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BSD 4.4
NAME
shar
- create a shell archive of files
SYNOPSIS
file ...
DESCRIPTION
writes an
sh(1)
shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the
files they contain (the
find(1)
utility does this correctly).
is normally used for distributing files by
ftp(1)
or
mail(1).
SEE ALSO
compress(1),
mail(1),
uuencode(1),
tar(1)
BUGS
makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
magic characters.
EXAMPLES
To create a shell archive of the program
ls(1)
and mail it to Rick:
cd ls
shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick
To recreate the program directory:
mkdir ls
cd ls
...
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
...
sh archive
HISTORY
The
command appears in
BSD 4.4
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
It is easy to insert trojan horses into
files.
It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
before running them through
sh(1).
Archives produced using this implementation of
may be easily examined with the command:
egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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- EXAMPLES
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- HISTORY
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- SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
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