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It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking.

One of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional ... but that’s typically a problem in other simple shell scripts, too. Working with json is easy.