Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> How do you create a script that has the tar file inside of it? Similar
> to what nVidia does with the driver, and so many other companies, how do
> you create teh executable script with an archive in it? I would like to
> be able to do that with a few things...
I'm not sure why this is marked OT... this seems pretty on topic to me.
Anyway, what you generally do is encode the binary file into a text
format, include it in the shell script as a HERE document, and then have
the script decode it and execute the result afterwards.
The 'shar' utility does most of this. It takes a binary file (or files)
and uuencodes them. It then puts a shell wrapper around the uuencoded
text so that all you have to do is run the script to extract the files.
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