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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa,net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File
Message-ID: <3029@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 01:33:06 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3029
Posted: Mon Apr 14 01:33:06 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 14:33:31 EST
References: <947@kitty.UUCP>
Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
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Summary: use "sh -xn" or "sh -vn"

In article <947@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:

> 	... There is a valuable lesson to be learned here: NEVER, EVER blindly
> unshar ANYTHING unknown!  After all, the shar source COULD have contained
> something like ``rm -fr''....

And fortunately, the shell provides a nice way to check what sorts
of things a shar will do.  For example:

	sh -x -n foo.shar

or more verbosely:

	sh -v -n foo.shar

The '-n' means "look at it, but don't do it."  Visit your
freindly manual page for more details.
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