makeself − An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
makeself [options] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args]
This program is a free (GPL) utility designed to create self-extractable archives from a directory.
The following options are supported.
-v, --version |
Prints out the makeself version number and exits. |
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-h, --help |
Print out help information. |
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--tar-quietly |
Suppress verbose output from the tar command |
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--quiet |
Do not print any messages other than errors |
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--gzip |
Compress using gzip (default if detected). |
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--bzip2 |
Compress using bzip2. |
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--pbzip2 |
Compress using pbzip2. |
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--xz |
Compress using xz. |
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--lzo |
Compress using lzop. |
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--lz4 |
Compress using lz4. |
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--compress |
Compress using the UNIX ’compress’ command. |
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--nocomp |
Do not compress the data. |
--complevel lvl
Specify the compression level for gzip,bzip2,pbzui2,xz,lzo or lz4
--notemp |
The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and uncompress in ./archive_dir. |
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--copy |
Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory. |
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--append |
Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored. |
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--current |
Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and --target dir imply --notemp. |
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--target dir |
Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative. |
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--header file |
Specify location of the header script. |
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--follow |
Follow the symlinks in the archive. |
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--noprogress |
Do not show the progress during the decompression. |
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--nox11 |
Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11. |
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--nowait |
Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm. |
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--nomd5 |
Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive. |
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--nocrc |
Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive. |
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--lsm file |
LSM file describing the package. --packaging-date date Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date. |
Makeself has been written by Stéphane Peter <megastep AT megastep DOT org>. This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio AT o2 DOT pl> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).