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