I use this script to create a self-extracting script from a directory. Executing the resultant script will extract its contents, execute autorun.sh, then clean up after itself.
sfxbuild.sh
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#!/bin/bash # sfxbuild.sh <directory> # This script generates a self extracting (sfx) installer from a sub-directory. # The resulting file is a bash script that will extract itself, run a file # called autorun.sh, then delete the extracted directory. if [ -z ${1+x} ]; then cat << EOF Usage: $0 <directory> <directory> = Directory name to turn into a sfx script <directory> should contain autorun.sh which will be run immediatly after the compressed data is extracted EOF exit 1 fi # if the sfx file already exists then delete it if [[ -f ./$1.sfx.sh ]]; then rm -fr ./$1.sfx.sh fi # Check for autorun.sh if [[ -f ./$1/autorun.sh ]]; then # Make sure it's executable chmod +x ./$1/autorun.sh else # It doesn't exist so throw an error echo ./$1/autorun.sh does NOT exist! exit 1 fi # create tar.gz file inside of source directory cd $1 tar zcf $1.tar.gz * # move it to the parent directory mv $1.tar.gz .. cd .. # generate header for sfx file cat << 'EOF' > ./$1.sfx.sh #!/bin/bash # Create a new directory for the sfx content mkdir $(basename $0 .sh) # Extract the binary data from this script to the new directory sed '0,/^__BINARY__$/d' $0 | tar zx -C ./$(basename $0 .sh) # Run the autorun.sh script cd $(basename $0 .sh) ./autorun.sh # Remove the extracted data and directory cd .. \rm -fr ./$(basename $0 .sh) # Exit the script before running into the binary data exit 0 # Everything below the next line will be interpreted as a GZipped TAR file __BINARY__ EOF # append tar.gz to the sfx script and remove the tar.gz file cat ./$1.tar.gz >> ./$1.sfx.sh rm ./$1.tar.gz # make the sfx file executable chmod +x ./$1.sfx.sh # let the user know echo Generated ./$1.sfx.sh |