Ah HA!. Thanks! I did a yum search for shar but lost the package name in the chaff (it seems LOTS of stuff is involved with SHARing in Linux!) The sharutils is part of the standard Fedora repo but is not enstalled by default (unless you need uuencode/uudecode - do people still download pr0n from usenet?) .<br>
<br>will poke at shar later to see how it works. I'm pretty sold on the self-extracting tarball process as I've used it extensively in the past. <br><br>wget <a href="http://myupdateserver/updates_">http://myupdateserver/updates_</a><date> | /bin/bash -x makes for an easy way to push a gazillion specialty tweaks to a gazillion +1 machines without the overhead of a spacewalk server.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> shar is not on any of the RHEL5/RHEL6/Fedora14/Fedora15alpha systems<br>
> I've checked. Nor is it in any package on any repo affiliated solidly<br>
> with that distro chain. However, I do always find tar, bash, sed and awk.<br>
><br>
> At the point I don't I start looking for a file called ntkernel.exe so I<br>
> can delete it :-)<br>
<br>
</div>It comes with the sharutils rpm. I'd be surprised if that's not<br>
available with Red Hat, as it includes uuencode and uudecode.<br>
<br>
Might be an epel package, but I've yet to figure out how to determine<br>
which repository it came from.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ecashin@noserose.net">ecashin@noserose.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm<br>
> wondering why not use the existing "shar" utility.<br>
><br>
> NAME<br>
> shar - create shell archives<br>
><br>
> SYNOPSIS<br>
> shar [ options ] file ...<br>
> shar -S [ options ]<br>
><br>
> DESCRIPTION<br>
> Shar creates "shell archives" (or shar files) which are in<br>
> text<br>
> format and can be mailed. These files may be unpacked<br>
> later by<br>
> executing them with /bin/sh. The resulting archive is<br>
> sent to<br>
> standard out unless the -o option is given. A wide range of<br>
> fea-<br>
> tures provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing shars<br>
> and in<br>
> specifying shar "smartness". Archives may be "vanilla" or<br>
> compre-<br>
> hensive.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> This is what you are looking for:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818" target="_blank">http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818</a><br>
><br>
> Very slick and very, very useful.<br>
><br>
> Self-extracting bash script.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Myers<br>
> <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> So, I'm trying to simplify an install process for a small<br>
> group of<br>
> developers. I want them to be able to simply run a script<br>
> that contains<br>
> the payload of software to be installed.<br>
><br>
> I recall being able to do this with something called a shell<br>
> archive?<br>
><br>
> It must be able to do more then just populate a directory<br>
> tree though.<br>
><br>
> Any suggestions???<br>
><br>
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