In response to Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
