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NAME

6       makeself - An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
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SYNTAX

9       makeself [options] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This  program  is  a  free  (GPL)  utility  designed to create self-ex‐
13       tractable archives from a directory.
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OPTIONS

16       The following options are supported.
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18       -v, --version  Prints out the makeself version number and exits.
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20       -h, --help     Print out help information.
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22       --tar-quietly  Suppress verbose output from the tar command
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24       --quiet        Do not print any messages other than errors
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26       --gzip         Compress using gzip (default if detected).
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38       --compress     Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.
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43                      Specify      the       compression       level       for
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46       --notemp       The  archive  will create archive_dir in the current di‐
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49       --copy         Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a
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52       --append       Append  more  files to an existing makeself archive. The
53                      label and startup scripts will then be ignored.
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55       --current      Files will be extracted to the current  directory.  Both
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58       --target dir   Extract  directly  to a target directory. Directory path
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61       --header file  Specify location of the header script.
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63       --cleanup file Specify a cleanup script that executes on interrupt  and
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66       --follow       Follow the symlinks in the archive.
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75       --nomd5        Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive.
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79       --lsm file     LSM file describing the package.  --packaging-date  date
80                      Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the
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EXAMPLES

84       Here is an example, assuming the user has a package image stored  in  a
85       /home/joe/mysoft,  and  he  wants to generate a self-extracting package
86       named mysoft.sh, which will launch the "setup" script initially  stored
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89       makeself.sh  /home/joe/mysoft  mysoft.sh  "Joe's Nice Software Package"
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92       Here is also how I created the makeself.run archive which contains  the
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95       makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter"
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AUTHORS

99       Makeself has been written by Stéphane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>.
100       This  man  page  was originally written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@o2.pl>
101       for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).
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