Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: shell archiver wanted - (nf) Message-ID: <998@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 12:41:31 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.998 Posted: Sat Feb 25 12:41:31 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Feb-84 01:22:02 EST References: <1619@pur-ee.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 16 The body of this article is a Bourne shell command (shar) to combine text files into a shar archive that can be extracted by running it as a Bourne shell command (i.e., "sh archive-file"). separator='!Funky!Stuff!' echo ': This is a shar archive. Extract with sh, not csh.' for f in $* do echo "echo x - $f" echo "cat > $f << '$separator'" cat $f echo "$separator" done -- John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, jsq@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq