make-self-extracting-bin v1.0.0

make-self-extracting-bin

A command-line tool for creating self-extracting shell-scripts.

Github: https://github.com/danishcake/make-self-extracting-bin \ NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/make-self-extracting-bin

Based on https://www.npmjs.com/package/make-self-extracting

Usage

Via npx

npx make-self-extracting-bin \
  --pre-extract "echo Extracting..." \
  --post-extract "echo Installing...; ./prepare.sh; ./install.sh; ./cleanup.sh" \
  --output ./install.sh \
  ./prepare.sh ./install.sh ./cleanup.sh

Via globally installed script

# Run once, ahead of time
npm install -g make-self-extracting-bin

make-self-extracting-bin \
  --pre-extract "echo Extracting..." \
  --post-extract "echo Installing...; ./prepare.sh; ./install.sh; ./cleanup.sh" \
  --output ./install.sh \
  ./prepare.sh ./install.sh ./cleanup.sh

How it works

The files specified when building the script are added to an archive (usually a .tar.gz). This archive, the pre-extraction, post-extraction and a small amount of fixed plumbing are concatenated into a single script file, that when run:

1. Runs the pre-extract script
2. Extracts the embedded archive to a temporary directory
3. Runs the post-extract script, changing CWD to the temporary directory.
4. Deletes the temporary directory

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