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329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\"     @(#)shar.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
33c3aac50fSPeter Wemm.\" $FreeBSD$
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359b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 6, 1993
369b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt SHAR 1
3762500372SRuslan Ermilov.Os
389b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
399b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar
409b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd create a shell archive of files
419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS
42bca89c59SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
43bca89c59SPhilippe Charnier.Ar
449b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
4593e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
4693e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
4793e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand writes a
489b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1
499b50d902SRodney W. Grimesshell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
509b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshierarchy specified by the command line operands.
519b50d902SRodney W. GrimesDirectories will be recreated and must be specified before the
529b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles they contain (the
539b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr find 1
549b50d902SRodney W. Grimesutility does this correctly).
559b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
5693e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
5793e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
5893e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand is normally used for distributing files by
599b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr ftp 1
609b50d902SRodney W. Grimesor
619b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 .
626c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh EXAMPLES
636c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovTo create a shell archive of the program
646c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Xr ls 1
656c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovand mail it to Rick:
666c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bd -literal -offset indent
676c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcd ls
686c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovshar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick
696c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Ed
706c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
716c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovTo recreate the program directory:
726c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bd -literal -offset indent
736c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovmkdir ls
746c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcd ls
756c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov\&...
766c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
776c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov\&...
786c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovsh archive
796c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Ed
809b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
819b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr compress 1 ,
829b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 ,
83da1ff3cbSWolfram Schneider.Xr tar 1 ,
84da1ff3cbSWolfram Schneider.Xr uuencode 1
856c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh HISTORY
866c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovThe
876c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
886c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcommand appeared in
896c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bx 4.4 .
909b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh BUGS
9193e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
9293e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
9393e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
949b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmagic characters.
9593e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
9693e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
9793e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand cannot handle files without a newline ('\\n')
985a4db6ebSMike Pritchardas the last character.
999b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
1009b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is easy to insert trojan horses into
10193e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
1029b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles.
1039b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
1049b50d902SRodney W. Grimesbefore running them through
1059b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1 .
1069b50d902SRodney W. GrimesArchives produced using this implementation of
10793e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
1089b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmay be easily examined with the command:
1099b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -literal -offset indent
1109b50d902SRodney W. Grimesegrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
1119b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
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