NAME
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 (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
HISTORY
The shar command appeared in
4.4BSD.
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:
$ egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file