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289b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.\"     @(#)shar.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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319b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dd June 6, 1993
329b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Dt SHAR 1
3362500372SRuslan Ermilov.Os
349b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh NAME
359b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nm shar
369b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Nd create a shell archive of files
379b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SYNOPSIS
38bca89c59SPhilippe Charnier.Nm
39bca89c59SPhilippe Charnier.Ar
409b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh DESCRIPTION
4193e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
4293e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
4393e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand writes a
449b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1
459b50d902SRodney W. Grimesshell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
469b50d902SRodney W. Grimeshierarchy specified by the command line operands.
479b50d902SRodney W. GrimesDirectories will be recreated and must be specified before the
489b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles they contain (the
499b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr find 1
509b50d902SRodney W. Grimesutility does this correctly).
519b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
5293e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
5393e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
5493e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand is normally used for distributing files by
559b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr ftp 1
569b50d902SRodney W. Grimesor
579b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 .
586c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh EXAMPLES
596c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovTo create a shell archive of the program
606c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Xr ls 1
616c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovand mail it to Rick:
626c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bd -literal -offset indent
636c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcd ls
646c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovshar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick
656c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Ed
666c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Pp
676c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovTo recreate the program directory:
686c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bd -literal -offset indent
696c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovmkdir ls
706c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcd ls
716c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov\&...
726c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
736c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov\&...
746c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovsh archive
756c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Ed
769b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh SEE ALSO
779b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr compress 1 ,
789b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr mail 1 ,
79da1ff3cbSWolfram Schneider.Xr tar 1 ,
80da1ff3cbSWolfram Schneider.Xr uuencode 1
816c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh HISTORY
826c7216dfSRuslan ErmilovThe
836c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Nm
846c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovcommand appeared in
856c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bx 4.4 .
869b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Sh BUGS
8793e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
8893e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
8993e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
909b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmagic characters.
9193e0d62dSJohn-Mark GurneyThe
9293e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
9393e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurneycommand cannot handle files without a newline ('\\n')
945a4db6ebSMike Pritchardas the last character.
959b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Pp
969b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is easy to insert trojan horses into
9793e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
989b50d902SRodney W. Grimesfiles.
999b50d902SRodney W. GrimesIt is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
1009b50d902SRodney W. Grimesbefore running them through
1019b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Xr sh 1 .
1029b50d902SRodney W. GrimesArchives produced using this implementation of
10393e0d62dSJohn-Mark Gurney.Nm
1049b50d902SRodney W. Grimesmay be easily examined with the command:
1059b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Bd -literal -offset indent
1069b50d902SRodney W. Grimesegrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
1079b50d902SRodney W. Grimes.Ed
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