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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:35:33 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 13), Beech Rintoul said:
> 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.

If you want to get sneaky, you can use bsdtar, since that's one of its
supported output formats:

tar --format=shar -cvf foo.shar foo

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com