Archive for March, 2008

Self installing bash script

Posted in Linux on March 18, 2008 by aghoras

Here’s bash script that can be added to a compressed tar file to create a single image extractor/installer. To create the final image, simply create a compressed tar file and concatenate it with this script. Don’t forget to set the read and execute bits.

cat install_script.sh.in my_tar_image.tar.gz > install_script.sh
chmod a+r+x install_script.sh

Here is the script. Remove the gif extension. Make sure there is new line character after the %%%% delimiter: