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+.Dd January 1, 2025
+.Dt SHAR 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm shar
+.Nd create a shell archive of files
+.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
+.Nm
+is obsolete and may not be present in
+.Fx 15
+and later.
+Because shell archives are simultaneously data and code and are typically
+interpreted by
+.Xr sh 1 ,
+they can easily be trojan-horsed and pose a significant security risk to users.
+The
+.Xr tar 1
+utility can still produce shar encodings of files if needed.
+The
+.Pa sysutils/freebsd-shar
+port has been created to maintain this version of
+.Nm
+past its deprecation in base.
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Ar
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+command writes a
+.Xr sh 1
+shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file
+hierarchy specified by the command line operands.
+Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the
+files they contain (the
+.Xr find 1
+utility does this correctly).
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+command is normally used for distributing files by
+.Xr ftp 1
+or
+.Xr mail 1 .
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+To create a shell archive of the program
+.Xr ls 1
+and mail it to Rick:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+cd ls
+shar `find . -print` \&| mail -s "ls source" rick
+.Ed
+.Pp
+To recreate the program directory:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+mkdir ls
+cd ls
+\&...
+<delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
+\&...
+sh archive
+.Ed
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr compress 1 ,
+.Xr mail 1 ,
+.Xr tar 1 ,
+.Xr uuencode 1
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The
+.Nm
+command makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing
+magic characters.
+The
+.Nm
+command cannot handle files without a newline ('\\n')
+as the last character.
+.Pp
+It is easy to insert trojan horses into
+.Nm
+files.
+It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined
+before running them through
+.Xr sh 1 .
+Archives produced using this implementation of
+.Nm
+may be easily examined with the command:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+egrep -av '^[X#]' shar.file
+.Ed