386BSD 0.1 development

Work on file usr/src/usr.bin/shar/shar.1

Co-Authored-By: Lynne Greer Jolitz <ljolitz@cardio.ucsf.edu>
Synthesized-from: 386BSD-0.1

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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+.\"
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+.\"
+.\"     @(#)shar.1     5.3 (Berkeley) 4/21/91
+.\"
+.Dd April 21, 1991
+.Dt SHAR 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm shar
+.Nd create a shell archive of files
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm shar Ar
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Shar
+writes an
+.Xr 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.
+.Pp
+.Nm Shar
+is normally used for distributing small numbers of files by
+.Xr ftp  1
+or
+.Xr mail  1  .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr compress 1 ,
+.Xr mail 1 ,
+.Xr uuencode 1 ,
+.Xr tar 1
+.Sh BUGS
+.Nm Shar
+makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
+magic characters.
+.Pp
+It is easy to insert trojan horses into
+.Nm shar
+files.
+It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
+before running them through
+.Xr sh  1  .
+Archives produced using this implementation of
+.Nm shar
+may be easily examined with the command:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+grep -v '^X' program.shar
+.Ed
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+To create a shell archive of the program
+.Xr ls  1
+and mail it to Rick:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+cd ls
+shar `find . -print`  mail -s "ls source" rick
+.Ed
+.Pp
+To recreate the program directory:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+mkdir ls
+cd ls
+...
+<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
+...
+sh archive
+.Ed
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command
+.Ud .