NAME
shar —
create a shell archive of
files
SYNOPSIS
shar |
file ... |
DESCRIPTION
Theshar command writes a
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).
The shar command 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
The shar command makes no provisions for
special types of files or files containing magic characters. The
shar command cannot handle files without a newline
('\n') as the last character.
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