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shar - create a shell archive of files
SYNOPSIS
shar file ...
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.
Shar is normally used for distributing small numbers of files by ftp (1) or mail (1).
SEE ALSO
compress(1), mail(1), uuencode(1), tar(1)
BUGS
Shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
magic characters.
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:
grep -v '^X' program.shar
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
mkdir ls
cd ls
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
sh archive