1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)shar.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt SHAR 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm shar 40.Nd create a shell archive of files 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Ar 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm 47command writes a 48.Xr sh 1 49shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file 50hierarchy specified by the command line operands. 51Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the 52files they contain (the 53.Xr find 1 54utility does this correctly). 55.Pp 56The 57.Nm 58command is normally used for distributing files by 59.Xr ftp 1 60or 61.Xr mail 1 . 62.Sh EXAMPLES 63To create a shell archive of the program 64.Xr ls 1 65and mail it to Rick: 66.Bd -literal -offset indent 67cd ls 68shar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick 69.Ed 70.Pp 71To recreate the program directory: 72.Bd -literal -offset indent 73mkdir ls 74cd ls 75\&... 76<delete header lines and examine mailed archive> 77\&... 78sh archive 79.Ed 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr compress 1 , 82.Xr mail 1 , 83.Xr tar 1 , 84.Xr uuencode 1 85.Sh HISTORY 86The 87.Nm 88command appeared in 89.Bx 4.4 . 90.Sh BUGS 91The 92.Nm 93command makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing 94magic characters. 95The 96.Nm 97command cannot handle files without a newline ('\\n') 98as the last character. 99.Pp 100It is easy to insert trojan horses into 101.Nm 102files. 103It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined 104before running them through 105.Xr sh 1 . 106Archives produced using this implementation of 107.Nm 108may be easily examined with the command: 109.Bd -literal -offset indent 110egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file 111.Ed 112