These .shar files are compressed somehow. How do I combine and
uncompress?

Mike Peterson wrote:
> The automated system administration scripts, which are copies of the
> scripts in active use on our Solaris 2.X, Linux (RedHat and Mandrake),
> SGI IRIX 6.X, and FreeBSD 5.X systems; they also were used on
> SunOS 4.1.X, HP (HP-UX 9.X), SGI (IRIX 5.X).
> They are available as files 'autoadmin.shar.*' from URL:
> http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/unix/
> (Note: these files were last updated Mar 6, 2006).
>
> The dot file scripts, which are copies of the .cshrc / .login / .profile
> / etc scripts in active use on our Solaris 2.X, Linux (RedHat and Mandrake),
> SGI IRIX 6.X, and FreeBSD 5.X systems; they also were used on
> SunOS 4.1.X, HP (HP-UX 9.X), SGI (IRIX 5.X).
> They are available as files 'dotfiles.shar.*' from URL:
> http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/unix/
> (Note: these files were last updated Mar 6, 2006).
>
> The BSD to HP-UX porting tricks, a set of notes and helpful C routines
> for porting programs to HP-UX, are available from URL:
> http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/unix/HPTRICKS
> This file also contains a driver program and functions to obtain the
> load average on a wide variety of systems, including HP-UX, IRIX,
> SunOS, Solaris, DEC OSF, Stardent(!), and even for systems with no
> /dev/kmem access (or if you can't get your program to be setgid to the
> "kmem" group because you do not have 'root' access).
> (Note: this file was last updated Jun 16, 1999).
> --
> I come from a small town whose population never changed. Mike Peterson
> Each time a woman got pregnant, someone left town. U/T Network Security
> E-mail: mikep@noc.utoronto.ca Tel: 416-978-5230
> WWW: http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/~mikep/ Fax: 416-971-1362

· gbruner@gmail.com :

> These .shar files are compressed somehow. How do I combine and
> uncompress?

You "cat" them together and then execute the resulting
file.

Alexander Skwar
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc gbruner@gmail.com wrote:
> These .shar files are compressed somehow. How do I combine and
> uncompress?

shar =*SHell ARchive
Just use your shell:

cat filea fileb filec ... | sh


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