1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)shar.1 5.3 (Berkeley) 4/21/91 33.\" 34.Dd April 21, 1991 35.Dt SHAR 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm shar 39.Nd create a shell archive of files 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm shar Ar 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm Shar 44writes an 45.Xr sh 1 46shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file 47hierarchy specified by the command line operands. 48Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the 49files they contain. 50.Pp 51.Nm Shar 52is normally used for distributing small numbers of files by 53.Xr ftp 1 54or 55.Xr mail 1 . 56.Sh SEE ALSO 57.Xr compress 1 , 58.Xr mail 1 , 59.Xr uuencode 1 , 60.Xr tar 1 61.Sh BUGS 62.Nm Shar 63makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing 64magic characters. 65.Pp 66It is easy to insert trojan horses into 67.Nm shar 68files. 69It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined 70before running them through 71.Xr sh 1 . 72Archives produced using this implementation of 73.Nm shar 74may be easily examined with the command: 75.Bd -literal -offset indent 76grep -v '^X' program.shar 77.Ed 78.Sh EXAMPLES 79To create a shell archive of the program 80.Xr ls 1 81and mail it to Rick: 82.Bd -literal -offset indent 83cd ls 84shar `find . -print` mail -s "ls source" rick 85.Ed 86.Pp 87To recreate the program directory: 88.Bd -literal -offset indent 89mkdir ls 90cd ls 91... 92<delete header lines and examine mailed archive> 93... 94sh archive 95.Ed 96.Sh HISTORY 97The 98.Nm 99command 100.Ud . 101