[new port] usage of shar command

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Anonymous on Sunday, 18 July 2010:
> Johan van Selst <johans at stack.nl> writes:
> 
> > Joe wrote:
> >> I can not figure out just what the author was trying to say with
> >> "output of shar `find port_dir`"
> >
> > If your port files are stored in the subdirectory 'newport' then
> > you may issue the command
> > 	shar `find newport` > file.shar
> 
> Another way is to use libarchive(3) writer, e.g.
> 
>   $ tar cf file.shar --format shar newport
> 
> It's less prone to trip on special symbols in filenames and doesn't have
> limit on number of files (i.e. ARG_MAX).
> 

This should be in the handbook -- good tip!

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