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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.
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        !            16: .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
        !            17: .\"
        !            18: .\"     @(#)shar.1     5.2 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
        !            19: .\"
        !            20: .TH SHAR 1 "%Q"
        !            21: .UC 7
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: shar \- create a shell archive of files
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .nf
        !            26: .ft B
        !            27: shar file ...
        !            28: .ft R
        !            29: .fi
        !            30: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            31: .I Shar
        !            32: writes an
        !            33: .IR sh (1)
        !            34: shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
        !            35: hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
        !            36: Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the
        !            37: files they contain.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: .I Shar
        !            40: is normally used for distributing small numbers of files by
        !            41: .IR ftp (1)
        !            42: or
        !            43: .IR mail (1).
        !            44: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            45: compress(1), mail(1), uuencode(1), tar(1)
        !            46: .SH BUGS
        !            47: .I Shar
        !            48: makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
        !            49: magic characters.
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: It is easy to insert trojan horses into
        !            52: .I shar
        !            53: files.
        !            54: It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
        !            55: before running them through
        !            56: .IR sh (1).
        !            57: Archives produced using this implementation of
        !            58: .I shar
        !            59: may be easily examined with the command:
        !            60: .sp
        !            61: .RS
        !            62: grep -v '^X' program.shar
        !            63: .RE
        !            64: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            65: To create a shell archive of the program
        !            66: .IR ls (1)
        !            67: and mail it to Rick:
        !            68: .sp
        !            69: .RS
        !            70: cd ls
        !            71: .br
        !            72: shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick
        !            73: .RE
        !            74: .sp
        !            75: To recreate the program directory:
        !            76: .sp
        !            77: .RS
        !            78: mkdir ls
        !            79: .br
        !            80: cd ls
        !            81: .br
        !            82: <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
        !            83: .br
        !            84: sh archive
        !            85: .RE

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