[ale] sh archive

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote: 
> shar is not on any of the RHEL5/RHEL6/Fedora14/Fedora15alpha systems I've
> checked. Nor is it in any package on any repo affiliated solidly with that
> distro chain. However, I do always find tar, bash, sed and awk.

yum list sharutils

sharutils.x86_64             4.10-1.fc14                   @fedora

sure (shar) looks like it's in the repos to me.

Might not be installed on a default install but it's there (and
obviously installed on my F14 system).

It's in the RedHat / CentOS repos too...

(CentOS 5.5)

sharutils.x86_64             4.6.1-2                       installed


Regards,
Mike

> At the point I don't I start looking for a file called ntkernel.exe so I can
> delete it :-)
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
> 
> > That looks neat, but I don't have time to read it now, so I'm wondering why
> > not use the existing "shar" utility.
> >
> > NAME
> >        shar - create shell archives
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >        shar [ options ] file ...
> >        shar -S [ options ]
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >        Shar  creates  "shell  archives" (or shar files) which are in text
> >        format and can be mailed.  These files may be  unpacked  later  by
> >        executing  them  with  /bin/sh.   The resulting archive is sent to
> >        standard out unless the -o option is given.  A wide range of  fea-
> >        tures  provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing shars and in
> >        specifying shar "smartness".  Archives may be "vanilla" or compre-
> >        hensive.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This is what you are looking for:
> >>
> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818
> >>
> >> Very slick and very, very useful.
> >>
> >> Self-extracting bash script.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Geoffrey Myers <
> >> lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So, I'm trying to simplify an install process for a small group of
> >>> developers.  I want them to be able to simply run a script that contains
> >>> the payload of software to be installed.
> >>>
> >>> I recall being able to do this with something called a shell archive?
> >>>
> >>> It must be able to do more then just populate a directory tree though.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions???
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Until later, Geoffrey
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