Simple Bash Installer

Following is a simple bash script to build a installer for any *nix system. 

#!/bin/bash

SKIP=`awk '/^__DATA_BEGIN__/ { print NR +1; exit 0; }'  \$0`
tail -n +\$SKIP \$0 | tar x
exit 0;

__DATA_BEGIN__

Save the script as "intaller.sh".

Put everything you need to install in a folder and tar the folder, 

tar -cvvf foo.tar foo/

Concatenate everything into a file, 

cat installer.sh foo.tar > setup

Make it executable, 

chmod 755 setup

Now when you run setup it will extract the folder in to current directory.

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