Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I'm building an application where-in I have many ksh + expect scripts all working together to achieve one objective. There is one main script which calls upon the other smaller scripts to do their jobs and then go off.

My trouble is , I do not know how to package (if that's reasonable) all the scripts into one so that I can easily distrtibute them to the end-users.

Will 'make' utility do me any good

Thanks in advance

chinmayee

look into tar

some possibilities using an archiver:

1. create a tar file that has all of them, and when extracted puts eveything in a single known directory.
2. create a zip archive (not gzip)
3. pax archive

You will also need a short "install" script to set ownership and permissions on the files once they are extracted, plus a README file to tell folks how unpack the archive and then to run the install script.

thanks jim and vgresh99

A nice tool to combine archive and install script in one file is makeself. See: makeself - Make self-extractable archives on Unix