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1.9     ! jmc        33: .Dd $Mdocdate$
1.1       deraadt    34: .Dt SHAR 1
1.4       aaron      35: .Os
1.1       deraadt    36: .Sh NAME
                     37: .Nm shar
                     38: .Nd create a shell archive of files
                     39: .Sh SYNOPSIS
1.3       aaron      40: .Nm shar Ar file Op Ar ...
1.1       deraadt    41: .Sh DESCRIPTION
1.3       aaron      42: .Nm shar
1.1       deraadt    43: writes an
                     44: .Xr sh 1
                     45: shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
                     46: hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
                     47: Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the
                     48: files they contain (the
                     49: .Xr find 1
                     50: utility does this correctly).
                     51: .Pp
1.3       aaron      52: .Nm shar
1.1       deraadt    53: is normally used for distributing files by
1.6       aaron      54: .Xr ftp 1
1.1       deraadt    55: or
1.6       aaron      56: .Xr mail 1 .
1.1       deraadt    57: .Sh EXAMPLES
                     58: To create a shell archive of the program
1.6       aaron      59: .Xr ls 1
1.1       deraadt    60: and mail it to Rick:
                     61: .Bd -literal -offset indent
1.7       mpech      62: $ cd ls
                     63: $ shar `find . -print` \&|  mail -s "ls source" rick
1.1       deraadt    64: .Ed
                     65: .Pp
                     66: To recreate the program directory:
                     67: .Bd -literal -offset indent
1.7       mpech      68: $ mkdir ls
                     69: $ cd ls
1.1       deraadt    70: \&...
                     71: <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
                     72: \&...
1.7       mpech      73: $ sh archive
1.1       deraadt    74: .Ed
1.5       aaron      75: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     76: .Xr compress 1 ,
                     77: .Xr mail 1 ,
                     78: .Xr tar 1 ,
                     79: .Xr uuencode 1
1.1       deraadt    80: .Sh HISTORY
                     81: The
                     82: .Nm
1.3       aaron      83: command appeared in
1.1       deraadt    84: .Bx 4.4 .
1.5       aaron      85: .Sh BUGS
                     86: .Nm shar
                     87: makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
                     88: magic characters.
                     89: .Pp
                     90: It is easy to insert trojan horses into
                     91: .Nm shar
                     92: files.
                     93: It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
                     94: before running them through
1.6       aaron      95: .Xr sh 1 .
1.5       aaron      96: Archives produced using this implementation of
                     97: .Nm shar
                     98: may be easily examined with the command:
                     99: .Bd -literal -offset indent
1.7       mpech     100: $ egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file
1.5       aaron     101: .Ed