[TUHS] Traditional method of dealing with embedded shar files

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Tue Jul 21 04:41:31 AEST 2020


On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 2:12 PM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

> sed -e '1,/---cut here---/d' < $patch | sh -x
>
> is what I use, but there's a wide variety of 'cut here' lines in the
> 2.11BSD patches, so I have had to taylor to each patch.
>
> Yep and you usually only running one or two at a time.   Your work  As
Wernflow of a applying a lot of patches is a tad different.  As Warner
said, there were plenty of different shar/unshars back in the day.

Just remember to thank Mary Ann for uuencode/decode which started it all ;-)
Clem
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