self-extractor?

[John Abreau]

Rodney Thayer <rodney at sabletech.com> writes:
>> does anyone know of a self-extracting tool for the Unix world?  I want to
>> create an executable that does the same sort of thing as self-extracing ZIP
>> or ARJ archives do in the PC world.
>> 
>> I want something that is distribution-neutral...

Try a SHAR archive containing a uuencoded gzipped tar file...

   #! /bin/sh
   cat > foo.uu << \SHAR_EOF
   begin 666 foo.tar.gz
   M...a...bunch...of...uuencoded...data...
   M...a...bunch...of...uuencoded...data...
   M...a...bunch...of...uuencoded...data...
   SHAR_EOF
   exit 0

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