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Quick-and-dirty script to create a quasi-self-extracting bzipped tar archive
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Creates a base64-encoded self-extracting tar archive. The extracting system | |
| # must have GNU tar, GNU coreutils (for base64), and bzip2 installed. | |
| # Created June 2011 by Mike Bourgeous | |
| # Released into the public domain, or if that is not possible, under CC0 | |
| function create_archive() | |
| { | |
| set -e | |
| echo '#!/bin/sh' | |
| echo 'cat << _SFX_EOF_ | base64 -d | tar -jxp' | |
| tar -jcv -- "$@" | base64 -w 120 | |
| RESULT=${PIPESTATUS[0]} | |
| echo '_SFX_EOF_' | |
| return $RESULT | |
| } | |
| if [ "$1" = "" -o "$2" = "" ]; then | |
| echo "Usage: $0 output_file input_files..." | |
| echo "Use '-' for output_file to send to stdout" | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| OUTFILE="$1" | |
| set -e | |
| shift | |
| if [ "$OUTFILE" = "-" ]; then | |
| create_archive "$@" | |
| else | |
| create_archive "$@" > "$OUTFILE" | |
| fi |
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