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Date:      Sat, 2 Feb 2019 13:52:30 +0100
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
To:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r343633 - head/usr.bin/shar
Message-ID:  <20190202125230.GA29541@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <a272feb4-3e5d-e646-3204-13685f17c3a4@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201901312321.x0VNLI2N009823@repo.freebsd.org> <a272feb4-3e5d-e646-3204-13685f17c3a4@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 03:29:03PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 1/31/19 3:21 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > Author: bdrewery
> > Date: Thu Jan 31 23:21:18 2019
> > New Revision: 343633
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343633
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Shar files may be seen as binary by grep.
> >   
> >   Suggest using -a to egrep to properly see executed commands.
> >   
> >   This is a minor improvement to the manpage.  A better improvement
> >   would be removal or gigantic warnings.
> 
> I dare someone to remove this utility.
> There may still be documentation suggesting its use somewhere due to
> pre-bugzilla days but now we can do proper binary attachments I believe.

bsdtar --format shar?

Joerg



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