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.\" 34.Dd June 6, 1993 35.Dt SHAR 1 36.Os BSD 4.4 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm shar 39.Nd create a shell archive of files 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm shar Ar 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm Shar 44writes an 45.Xr sh 1 46shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file 47hierarchy specified by the command line operands. 48Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the 49files they contain (the 50.Xr find 1 51utility does this correctly). 52.Pp 53.Nm Shar 54is normally used for distributing files by 55.Xr ftp 1 56or 57.Xr mail 1 . 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr compress 1 , 60.Xr mail 1 , 61.Xr uuencode 1 , 62.Xr tar 1 63.Sh BUGS 64.Nm Shar 65makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing 66magic characters. 67.Pp 68It is easy to insert trojan horses into 69.Nm shar 70files. 71It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined 72before running them through 73.Xr sh 1 . 74Archives produced using this implementation of 75.Nm shar 76may be easily examined with the command: 77.Bd -literal -offset indent 78egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file 79.Ed 80.Sh EXAMPLES 81To create a shell archive of the program 82.Xr ls 1 83and mail it to Rick: 84.Bd -literal -offset indent 85cd ls 86shar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick 87.Ed 88.Pp 89To recreate the program directory: 90.Bd -literal -offset indent 91mkdir ls 92cd ls 93... 94<delete header lines and examine mailed archive> 95... 96sh archive 97.Ed 98.Sh HISTORY 99The 100.Nm 101command appears in 102.Bx 4.4 . 103