[ale] sh archive

[Jeff Hubbs]

Better, more complete distros exist. ;)

In Gentoo:

$ emerge -p sharutils
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/sharutils-4.10  USE="nls"

On 4/20/11 10:13 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> shar is not on any of the RHEL5/RHEL6/Fedora14/Fedora15alpha systems 
> I've checked. Nor is it in any package on any repo affiliated solidly 
> with that distro chain. However, I do always find tar, bash, sed and awk.
>
> At the point I don't I start looking for a file called ntkernel.exe so 
> I can delete it :-)
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net 
> <mailto:ecashin at noserose.net>> wrote:
>
>     That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm
>     wondering why not use the existing "shar" utility.
>
>     NAME
>            shar - create shell archives
>
>     SYNOPSIS
>            shar [ options ] file ...
>            shar -S [ options ]
>
>     DESCRIPTION
>            Shar  creates  "shell  archives" (or shar files) which are
>     in text
>            format and can be mailed.  These files may be  unpacked
>      later  by
>            executing  them  with  /bin/sh.   The resulting archive is
>     sent to
>            standard out unless the -o option is given.  A wide range
>     of  fea-
>            tures  provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing shars
>     and in
>            specifying shar "smartness".  Archives may be "vanilla" or
>     compre-
>            hensive.
>
>     On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         This is what you are looking for:
>
>         http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818
>
>         Very slick and very, very useful.
>
>         Self-extracting bash script.
>
>         On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Myers
>         <lists at serioustechnology.com
>         <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>
>             So, I'm trying to simplify an install process for a small
>             group of
>             developers.  I want them to be able to simply run a script
>             that contains
>             the payload of software to be installed.
>
>             I recall being able to do this with something called a
>             shell archive?
>
>             It must be able to do more then just populate a directory
>             tree though.
>
>             Any suggestions???
>
>             --
>             Until later, Geoffrey
>
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