| SHAR(1) | General Commands Manual | SHAR(1) | 
NAME
 shar — create a shell archive of files
DESCRIPTION
 shar writes an 
sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line operands. Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the 
find(1) utility does this correctly).
shar is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).
 
EXAMPLES
 To create a shell archive of the program 
ls(1) and mail it to Rick:
cd ls 
shar `find . -print` |  mail -s "ls source" rick
To recreate the program directory:
mkdir ls 
cd ls 
... 
<delete header lines and examine mailed archive> 
... 
sh archive
 
HISTORY
 The shar command appeared in 4.4BSD.
BUGS
 shar makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
 It is easy to insert trojan horses into 
shar files. It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them through 
sh(1). Archives produced using this implementation of 
shar may be easily examined with the command:
egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file