NAME

       makeself - An utility to generate self-extractable archives.

SYNTAX

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

DESCRIPTION

       This program is a free (GPL) shell utility designed to create self-extractable compressed archives from a
       directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then
       uncompress  itself  to  a  temporary  directory  and  an optional arbitrary command will be executed (for
       example an installation script).

       Makeself archives also include checksums for integrity self-validation (CRC and/or MD5/SHA256 checksums).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -v, --version  Prints out the makeself version number and exits.

       -h, --help     Print out help information.

       --tar-quietly  Suppress verbose output from the tar command

       --quiet        Do not print any messages other than errors

       --gzip         Compress using gzip (default if detected).

       --bzip2        Compress using bzip2.

       --bzip3        Compress using bzip3.

       --pbzip2       Compress using pbzip2.

       --xz           Compress using xz.

       --lzo          Compress using lzop.

       --lz4          Compress using lz4.

       --pigz         Compress using pigz.

       --zstd         Compress using zstd.

       --base64       Encode the archive to ASCII in  Base64  format  instead  of  compressing  (base64  command
                      required).

       --gpg-encrypt  Encrypt the archive using GPG. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with.

       --ssl-encrypt  Encrypt the archive using OpenSSL. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with.

       --keep-umask   Keep  the  umask  set  to  shell  default, rather than overriding when executing the self-
                      extracting archive.

       --compress     Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.

       --nocomp       Do not compress the data.

       --complevel lvl
                      Specify the compression level for gzip, bzip2, pbzip2, xz, zstd, lzo or lz4.  Defaults  to
                      9.

       --threads num  Specify the number of threads to be used by compressors that support parallelization.

       --tar-format opt
                       Specify the tar archive format (default is ustar); you may use any value accepted by your
                      tar command (such as posix, v7, etc).

       --tar-extra opt
                      Append more options to the tar command line.

       --notemp       The   archive  will  create  archive_dir  in  the  current  directory  and  uncompress  in
                      ./archive_dir.

       --copy         Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory.

       --append       Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then
                      be ignored.

       --current      Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and  --target  dir  imply
                      --notemp.

       --target dir   Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative.

       --header file  Specify location of the header script.

       --help-header file
                      Add a header to the archive's help output.

       --cleanup file Specify a cleanup script that executes on interrupt and when finished successfully.

       --follow       Follow the symlinks in the archive.

       --noprogress   Do not show the progress during the decompression.

       --nooverwrite  Do not extract the archive if the target directory already exists.

       --nox11        Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11.

       --nowait       Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm.

       --nomd5        Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive.

       --sha256       Adds a SHA256 checksum for the archive.

       --nocrc        Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.

       --lsm file     LSM file describing the package.

       --license file Append a license file.

       --packaging-date date
                      Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date.

       EXAMPLES
              Here  is  an  example,  assuming the user has a package image stored in a /home/joe/mysoft, and he
              wants to generate a self-extracting package named mysoft.sh, which will launch the "setup"  script
              initially stored in /home/joe/mysoft:

       makeself.sh /home/joe/mysoft mysoft.sh "Joe's Nice Software Package" ./setup

       Here is also how I created the makeself.run archive which contains the Makeself distribution:

       makeself.sh --notemp makeself makeself.run "Makeself by Stephane Peter" echo "Makeself has extracted
       itself"

AUTHORS

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

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