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#!/bin/bash skip=9 # blah blah blah tail -n +$skip $0 | tar jxvf - | (while read a; do echo -n "."; done; echo;) exit __LINE_8_END_OF_CODE__
and then cat whatever.tar.bz2 >> install_tar.sh
voila, you have a self extracting tarball. Don't forget the exit just before the __LINE_8_END_OF_CODE__, and make sure that that *is* the last line of your shell code.
set skip to the line where your tar.bz2 data starts.
