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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 02:15:40 UTC
The branch main has been updated by kevans: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4 commit f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4 Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000 shar: add a deprecation notice The shar(1) program is simple, but the fundamental idea of a sh archive is risky at best and one that we probably shouldn't be promoting as prominently as a program in $PATH and a manpage. Let's deprecate and remove it, since the same functionality can easily be found in tar(1) instead. Reviewed by: emaste, philip Reviewed by: allanjude, brooks, delphij, des, imp, rpokala (previous) MFC after: 3 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D48130 --- usr.bin/shar/shar.1 | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 index 903f937491dc..df97021b1bba 100644 --- a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 +++ b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 @@ -25,12 +25,24 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd January 31, 2019 +.Dd January 1, 2025 .Dt SHAR 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm shar .Nd create a shell archive of files +.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE +.Nm +is obsolete and may not be present in +.Fx 15 +and later.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. .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Ar