Sharutils

Sharutils - Creates and helps unpack shell archives

Sharutils consists of two shell archiving utilities: "shar" and "unshar."

"shar" makes shell archives out of many files and preps them for transmission by email. A shell archive is a collection of files that can be unpacked by /bin/sh. Among other things, the program can compress files, uuencode binary files, split long files and construct multi-part mailings, ensure correct unsharing order, and provide simplistic checksums.

"unshar" scans mail archives, looks for the start of shell archives, and automatically strips off headers and other introductory text. The bodies of the messages are then unpacked by a copy of the shell; the program may also process files containing linked shell archives.

As of June 29, 2004, this package has no maintainer. If you would be interested in maintaining 'sharutils,' please write to .

Obtaining

Web page http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/sharutils.html
Source tarball ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.2.1.tar.gz
Version 4.2.1 (stable) released on 1999-09-10

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User manual included and available from http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/sharutils-4.2/sharutils.html

Support contacts

Bug List

<bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	None
Developers	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gnu.org> David J. Camp
Contributors	Jan Djarv

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	shar, unshar
Related programs	gzip, GNU tar

Entry information

Entry compiled by

Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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