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28*ab3cf2b4SBryan Drewery.Dd January 31, 2019
299b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt SHAR 1
3062500372SRuslan Ermilov.Os
319b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar
339b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd create a shell archive of files
349b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS
35bca89c59SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
36bca89c59SPhilippe Charnier.Ar
379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
3893e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
3993e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
4093e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand writes a
419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1
429b50d902SRodney W. Grimesshell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
439b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshierarchy specified by the command line operands.
449b50d902SRodney W. GrimesDirectories will be recreated and must be specified before the
459b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles they contain (the
469b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr find 1
479b50d902SRodney W. Grimesutility does this correctly).
489b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
4993e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
5093e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
5193e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand is normally used for distributing files by
529b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr ftp 1
539b50d902SRodney W. Grimesor
549b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 .
556c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh EXAMPLES
566c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovTo create a shell archive of the program
576c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Xr ls 1
586c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovand mail it to Rick:
596c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bd -literal -offset indent
606c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcd ls
616c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovshar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick
626c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Ed
636c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
646c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovTo recreate the program directory:
656c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bd -literal -offset indent
666c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovmkdir ls
676c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcd ls
686c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov\&...
696c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
706c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov\&...
716c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovsh archive
726c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Ed
739b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
749b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr compress 1 ,
759b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 ,
76da1ff3cbSWolfram Schneider.Xr tar 1 ,
77da1ff3cbSWolfram Schneider.Xr uuencode 1
786c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh HISTORY
796c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovThe
806c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
816c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcommand appeared in
826c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bx 4.4 .
839b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh BUGS
8493e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
8593e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
8693e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
879b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmagic characters.
8893e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
8993e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
9093e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand cannot handle files without a newline ('\\n')
915a4db6ebSMike Pritchardas the last character.
929b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
939b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is easy to insert trojan horses into
9493e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
959b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles.
969b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
979b50d902SRodney W. Grimesbefore running them through
989b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1 .
999b50d902SRodney W. GrimesArchives produced using this implementation of
10093e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
1019b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmay be easily examined with the command:
1029b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -literal -offset indent
103*ab3cf2b4SBryan Dreweryegrep -av '^[X#]' shar.file
1049b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
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