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329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\"     @(#)shar.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
339b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\"
349b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 6, 1993
359b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt SHAR 1
369b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Os BSD 4.4
379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
389b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar
399b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd create a shell archive of files
409b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS
419b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar Ar
429b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
439b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm Shar
449b50d902SRodney W. Grimeswrites an
459b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1
469b50d902SRodney W. Grimesshell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
479b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshierarchy specified by the command line operands.
489b50d902SRodney W. GrimesDirectories will be recreated and must be specified before the
499b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles they contain (the
509b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr find 1
519b50d902SRodney W. Grimesutility does this correctly).
529b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
539b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm Shar
549b50d902SRodney W. Grimesis normally used for distributing files by
559b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr ftp  1
569b50d902SRodney W. Grimesor
579b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail  1  .
589b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
599b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr compress 1 ,
609b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 ,
619b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr uuencode 1 ,
629b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr tar 1
639b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh BUGS
649b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm Shar
659b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmakes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
669b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmagic characters.
679b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
689b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is easy to insert trojan horses into
699b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar
709b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles.
719b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
729b50d902SRodney W. Grimesbefore running them through
739b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh  1  .
749b50d902SRodney W. GrimesArchives produced using this implementation of
759b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar
769b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmay be easily examined with the command:
779b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -literal -offset indent
789b50d902SRodney W. Grimesegrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
799b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
809b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh EXAMPLES
819b50d902SRodney W. GrimesTo create a shell archive of the program
829b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr ls  1
839b50d902SRodney W. Grimesand mail it to Rick:
849b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -literal -offset indent
859b50d902SRodney W. Grimescd ls
869b50d902SRodney W. Grimesshar `find . -print` \&|  mail -s "ls source" rick
879b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
889b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
899b50d902SRodney W. GrimesTo recreate the program directory:
909b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -literal -offset indent
919b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmkdir ls
929b50d902SRodney W. Grimescd ls
939b50d902SRodney W. Grimes...
949b50d902SRodney W. Grimes<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
959b50d902SRodney W. Grimes...
969b50d902SRodney W. Grimessh archive
979b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
989b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh HISTORY
999b50d902SRodney W. GrimesThe
1009b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm
1019b50d902SRodney W. Grimescommand appears in
1029b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bx 4.4 .
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