[ale] sh archive

[Jim Kinney]

My head scratching now is when uuencode/decode got dropped from the default
install process. None of the RHEL5.5 systems have it excluded in the
kickstarts and neither do the new fedora ones I'm building yet it is not
part of the groups installed in the base.

Are we just getting old?

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> 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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