Shar question

[Bill Moran]

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.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.