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.

Shell scripting may finally get a proper bug ... Their idea is to make it possible to check a script for correctness before it gets the chance to nuke your files. They describe their efforts ...

Bash allows you to work with custom file descriptors beyond the standard 0 (stdin), 1 (stdout), and 2 (stderr). You can also separate stdout and stderr cleanly: ...

which is then transpiled into a shell script that should run in any POSIX-compliant shell. As a self-professed research project, Pnut seems like an interesting project, although if you are writing ...

After the shell script is written, it is made usable by changing its file status to "executable" with the change mode command (see chmod). THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...