NAME
shar —
create a shell archive of
files
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
shar 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).
shar is normally used for distributing files by
ftp(1) or
mail(1).
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
SEE ALSO
compress(1),
mail(1),
tar(1),
uuencode(1)
HISTORY
The
shar command appeared in
4.4BSD.
BUGS
shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files
containing magic characters.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
It is easy to insert trojan horses into
shar files. It is
strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running
them through
sh(1). Archives
produced using this implementation of
shar may be easily
examined with the command:
egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file