Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:35:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shar question Message-ID: <20061213223533.GD79418@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200612131127.07238.beech@alaskaparadise.com> References: <200612131127.07238.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 13), Beech Rintoul said: > I'm trying to learn how to use shar. I've read the manual. > > If I pass a directory to shar: > > shar foo > foo.shar > > Results in a shar file. Problem is that when I unpack it I just end > up with an empty directory. I probably need to pass it a flag or > something, but I'm not sure which one to use. > > How do I make a shar file out of a directory and ALL it's contents. If you want to get sneaky, you can use bsdtar, since that's one of its supported output formats: tar --format=shar -cvf foo.shar foo -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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