1.\" $NetBSD: shar.1,v 1.12 2012/03/22 07:58:19 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)shar.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 31.\" 32.Dd June 6, 1993 33.Dt SHAR 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm shar 37.Nd create a shell archive of files 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Ar 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42.Nm 43writes an 44.Xr sh 1 45shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file 46hierarchy specified by the command line operands. 47Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the 48files they contain (the 49.Xr find 1 50utility does this correctly). 51.Pp 52.Nm 53is normally used for distributing files by 54.Xr ftp 1 55or 56.Xr mail 1 . 57.Sh EXAMPLES 58To create a shell archive of the program 59.Xr ls 1 60and mail it to Rick: 61.Bd -literal -offset indent 62cd ls 63shar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick 64.Ed 65.Pp 66To recreate the program directory: 67.Bd -literal -offset indent 68mkdir ls 69cd ls 70\&... 71\*[Lt]delete header lines and examine mailed archive\*[Gt] 72\&... 73sh archive 74.Ed 75.Sh SEE ALSO 76.Xr compress 1 , 77.Xr mail 1 , 78.Xr tar 1 , 79.Xr uuencode 1 80.Sh HISTORY 81The 82.Nm 83command appeared in 84.Bx 4.4 . 85.Sh BUGS 86.Nm 87makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing 88magic characters. 89.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS 90It is easy to insert trojan horses into 91.Nm 92files. 93It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined 94before running them through 95.Xr sh 1 . 96Archives produced using this implementation of 97.Nm 98may be easily examined with the command: 99.Bd -literal -offset indent 100egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file 101.Ed 102