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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 | |
44 | writes an | |
45 | .Xr sh 1 | |
46 | shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file | |
47 | hierarchy specified by the command line operands. | |
48 | Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the | |
49 | files they contain. | |
50 | .Pp | |
51 | .Nm Shar | |
52 | is normally used for distributing small numbers of files by | |
53 | .Xr ftp 1 | |
54 | or | |
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 | |
63 | makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing | |
64 | magic characters. | |
65 | .Pp | |
66 | It is easy to insert trojan horses into | |
67 | .Nm shar | |
68 | files. | |
69 | It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined | |
70 | before running them through | |
71 | .Xr sh 1 . | |
72 | Archives produced using this implementation of | |
73 | .Nm shar | |
74 | may be easily examined with the command: | |
75 | .Bd -literal -offset indent | |
76 | grep -v '^X' program.shar | |
77 | .Ed | |
78 | .Sh EXAMPLES | |
79 | To create a shell archive of the program | |
80 | .Xr ls 1 | |
81 | and mail it to Rick: | |
82 | .Bd -literal -offset indent | |
83 | cd ls | |
84 | shar `find . -print` mail -s "ls source" rick | |
85 | .Ed | |
86 | .Pp | |
87 | To recreate the program directory: | |
88 | .Bd -literal -offset indent | |
89 | mkdir ls | |
90 | cd ls | |
91 | ... | |
92 | <delete header lines and examine mailed archive> | |
93 | ... | |
94 | sh archive | |
95 | .Ed | |
96 | .Sh HISTORY | |
97 | The | |
98 | .Nm | |
99 | command | |
100 | .Ud . |