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| 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 . |