#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Creates self-extracting archives that use Perl to extract.
# Will make directories on extraction, but parents of top-level
# directories must exist and be writable.
#
# Outputs self-extracting archive to stdout.
# Arguments that are directories will be recursed into.
#
# To make an archive:
#  perl separ.pl <fileOrDir> [...] > archive
#
# To unpack an archive:
#   perl archive
#
# Uses no external modules for decompression.
# File format is: extractor program (Perl) at top,
# __DATA__ tag,
# multiple files, uuencoded.
# There may be "mkdir" lines before files.
#
# By Ned Konz, perl@bike-nomad.com
# encode() derived from Tom Christensen's PPT version of uuencode
# decoder based on code by Nick Ing-Simmons and Tom Christiansen

use strict;
use File::Find;

sub encode {
    my ( $source, $destination, $mode ) = @_;

    if ( $source eq '-' && -t STDIN ) {
        warn "$0: WARNING: reading from standard input\n";
    }

    printf "begin %03o $destination\012", $mode || 0644;

    local *INPUT;
    open( INPUT, "< $source" ) || die "can't open $source: $!";
    binmode(INPUT);

    my $block;
    print pack( "u", $block ) while read( INPUT, $block, 45 );
    print "`\012";
    print "end\012";

    close(INPUT) || die "can't close $source: $!";
}

# copy the extractor
print $_ while (<DATA>);

# now encode the files with relative path names
$File::Find::dont_use_nlink = 1;
for my $arg (@ARGV) {
    my $ignoreLength = length($arg) + 1;
    File::Find::find(
        {
            no_chdir => 1,
            wanted   => sub {
                my $name = $File::Find::name;
                my $mode = $name eq '-' ? 0777 : ( stat($name) )[2];

                if ( -d _ ) {
                    $mode &= 0777;
                    printf( "mkdir %03o %s\012", $mode || 0777, $name 
+);
                    return;
                }
                encode( $name, $name, $mode & 0666 );
            },
        },
        $arg
    );
}

__DATA__
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

# This is a self-extracting archive that requires Perl to extract.
BEGIN { $/ = "\012" }

while (<DATA>) {

  # attempt to be robust if someone edits this file in a different OS
  $_ =~ s/[\r\n]+$//s;
  next FILESPEC
    unless my ( $op, $mode, $file ) = /^(begin|mkdir)\s+(\d+)\s+(.*)/s
+;

  if ( $op eq 'mkdir' ) {
    if ( !-d $file ) {
      print STDERR "making directory $file\n";
      mkdir $file, 0777 or die "Can't make directory $file: $!\n";
    }
    next;    # filespec
  }
  my $foundEnd = 0;
  print STDERR "extracting file $file\n";
  open( OUT, ">$file" ) or die "Can't create $file: $!\n";
  binmode(OUT);

  while (<DATA>) {
    $_ =~ s/[\r\n]+$//s;
    if (/^end/) { $foundEnd++; last }
    next if /[a-z]/;
    next
      unless int( ( ( ( ord() - 32 ) & 077 ) + 2 ) / 3 ) == int( lengt
+h() / 4 );
    print OUT unpack( "u", $_ ) or die "can't write $file: $!";
  }
  close(OUT) or die "can't close $file: $!";
  chmod oct($mode), $file or die "can't chmod $file to $mode: $!\n";
  $foundEnd or die "Missing end: $file may be truncated.\n";
}
__DATA__
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