Shar question

[Beech Rintoul]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:38, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Beech Rintoul <beech at alaskaparadise.com>:
> > 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.
>
> shar needs to know all the files it's to put into the archive, it
> doesn't walk the tree for you.
>
> Thus you could do:
> share file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt > archive.shar
> to selectively grab only the specified files.
>
> When grabbing an entire directory tree, you can use the syntax:
> share `find \start\of\directory\tree -print` > archive.shar
>
> which is hinted at in the man page.  The backticks cause the find
> command to be executed, and the output of find is given to shar.

OK, now I understand. The manual was a bit unclear on that. Thanks,

Beech

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