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A self-extracting archiving tool for Unix systems, in 100% shell script. makeself.sh is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable compressed tar archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an optional arbitrary command will be executed (for example an installation script). This is pretty similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows world. Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5/SHA256 checksums).
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- The makeself.sh script itself is used only to create the archives from a directory of files
- Documentation available
- Examples provided
- The startup script must be a regular Shell script
- Maven Usage
- For Unix systems, in 100% shell script
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GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)Follow makeself
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