[new port] usage of shar command

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Joe on Monday, 19 July 2010:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >On 18/07/2010 10:56:42, Joe wrote:
> >
> >>After getting my port ready for submitting to the ports system, I read
> >>the above section from the porters handbook and come to a show stopper.
> >>
> >>I can not figure out just what the author was trying to say with
> >>"output of shar `find port_dir`"
> >>
> >>Can someone explain how the shar command is intended to be used to
> >>create the file that gets send with the [new port] pr?
> >
> >Suppose you have called your new port "splat", and you have therefore a
> >directory ~/splat containing the port Makefile, distinfo, pkg-descr,
> >etc.  Then what you need to do is run exactly this:
> >
> >    % cd ~
> >    % shar `find splat` > splat.shar
> >
> >Note the special `backticks` -- they're important.
> >
> >What this does is --
> >
> >    * Runs the command: find splat
> >      This will print out a list of all the file and directory names
> >      under the directory splat.
> >    * Takes that list and turns it into part of the command line for
> >      shar.
> >    * Runs shar over all the files and directories found by find.
> >
> >Now, just attach that  splat.shar file to the PR (send-pr -a splat.shar)
> >as the final step in submitting your new port.
> >
> >	Cheers,
> >
> >	Matthew
> 
> This needs to be in the handbook. How is anybody going to know that the
> `find port_dir` is suppose to be enclosed by [`backticks`]. I has to be 
> said in words not just a printed example.
> 
The handbook shows backticks, at least in my browser:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html
> 

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