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It's not exactly what you are looking for:
But you could take a look at shar(1).
I don't even know for sure whether it can archive binaries.
shar gives you a shellscript, to which you could prefix your own script,
and when you run it, it'll extract the incorporated file, and you can
exec it :)

-- Jille
(Resend from right email-adres)

Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to use one exec file from a shellscript but I would like
> it to be incorporated in the same file, like Nvidia do for its FreeBSD
> drivers. How can I do this in a convenient way ?
>
> Mathieu
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