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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 02:15:40 UTC
The branch main has been updated by kevans:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4
commit f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4
Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000
Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000
shar: add a deprecation notice
The shar(1) program is simple, but the fundamental idea of a sh archive
is risky at best and one that we probably shouldn't be promoting as
prominently as a program in $PATH and a manpage. Let's deprecate and
remove it, since the same functionality can easily be found in
tar(1) instead.
Reviewed by: emaste, philip
Reviewed by: allanjude, brooks, delphij, des, imp, rpokala (previous)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48130
---
usr.bin/shar/shar.1 | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
index 903f937491dc..df97021b1bba 100644
--- a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
+++ b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
@@ -25,12 +25,24 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd January 31, 2019
+.Dd January 1, 2025
.Dt SHAR 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm shar
.Nd create a shell archive of files
+.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
+.Nm
+is obsolete and may not be present in
+.Fx 15
+and later.
+Because shell archives are simultaneously data and code and are typically
+interpreted by
+.Xr sh 1 ,
+they can easily be trojan-horsed and pose a significant security risk to users.
+The
+.Xr tar 1
+utility can still produce shar encodings of files if needed.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar