1.\" $NetBSD: shar.1,v 1.10 2002/02/08 01:36:32 ross 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)shar.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 6, 1993 37.Dt SHAR 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm shar 41.Nd create a shell archive of files 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Ar 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Nm 47writes an 48.Xr sh 1 49shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file 50hierarchy specified by the command line operands. 51Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the 52files they contain (the 53.Xr find 1 54utility does this correctly). 55.Pp 56.Nm 57is normally used for distributing files by 58.Xr ftp 1 59or 60.Xr mail 1 . 61.Sh EXAMPLES 62To create a shell archive of the program 63.Xr ls 1 64and mail it to Rick: 65.Bd -literal -offset indent 66cd ls 67shar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick 68.Ed 69.Pp 70To recreate the program directory: 71.Bd -literal -offset indent 72mkdir ls 73cd ls 74\&... 75\*[Lt]delete header lines and examine mailed archive\*[Gt] 76\&... 77sh archive 78.Ed 79.Sh SEE ALSO 80.Xr compress 1 , 81.Xr mail 1 , 82.Xr tar 1 , 83.Xr uuencode 1 84.Sh HISTORY 85The 86.Nm 87command appeared in 88.Bx 4.4 . 89.Sh BUGS 90.Nm 91makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing 92magic characters. 93.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS 94It is easy to insert trojan horses into 95.Nm 96files. 97It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined 98before running them through 99.Xr sh 1 . 100Archives produced using this implementation of 101.Nm 102may be easily examined with the command: 103.Bd -literal -offset indent 104egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file 105.Ed 106