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Manual Pages  — SHAR

NAME

shar – create a shell archive of files

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS


shar file ...

DESCRIPTION

The shar command writes a sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands. Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).

The shar command is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).

EXAMPLES

To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:
cd ls
shar `find . -print` amp;| mail -s "ls source" rick

To recreate the program directory:

mkdir ls
cd ls
amp;...
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
amp;...
sh archive

SEE ALSO

compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1)

HISTORY

The shar command appeared in BSD 4.4 .

BUGS

The shar command makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters. The shar command cannot handle files without a newline (' ) as the last character.

It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files. It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them through sh(1). Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:

egrep -av '^[X#]' shar.file

SHAR (1) January 31, 2019

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