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 tar 1 , 62.Xr uuencode 1 63.Sh BUGS 64.Nm Shar 65makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing 66magic characters. 67.Nm Shar 68cannot handle files without a newline ('\\n') 69as last character. 70.Pp 71It is easy to insert trojan horses into 72.Nm shar 73files. 74It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined 75before running them through 76.Xr sh 1 . 77Archives produced using this implementation of 78.Nm shar 79may be easily examined with the command: 80.Bd -literal -offset indent 81egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file 82.Ed 83.Sh EXAMPLES 84To create a shell archive of the program 85.Xr ls 1 86and mail it to Rick: 87.Bd -literal -offset indent 88cd ls 89shar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick 90.Ed 91.Pp 92To recreate the program directory: 93.Bd -literal -offset indent 94mkdir ls 95cd ls 96... 97<delete header lines and examine mailed archive> 98... 99sh archive 100.Ed 101.Sh HISTORY 102The 103.Nm 104command appears in 105.Bx 4.4 . 106