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diff --git a/development/shc/README b/development/shc/README index 560ad6f8c8b81..be04109cc4174 100644 --- a/development/shc/README +++ b/development/shc/README @@ -1,16 +1,15 @@ shc - Shell script compiler -SHC is a generic shell script compiler. It takes a script, which is -specified on the command line and produces C source code. The generated -source code is then compiled and linked to produce a stripped binary. +SHC is a generic shell script compiler. It takes a script, which is specified on +the command line and produces C source code. The generated source code is then +compiled and linked to produce a stripped binary. -The compiled binary will still be dependent on the shell specified in -the first line of the shell code (i.e shebang: #!/bin/sh or such), thus -shc does not create completely independent binaries. +The compiled binary will still be dependent on the shell specified in the first +line of the shell code (i.e shebang: #!/bin/sh or such), thus shc does not +create completely independent binaries. -shc itself is not a compiler such as cc, it rather encodes and encrypts -a shell script and generates C source code with the added expiration -capability. It then uses the system compiler to compile a stripped -binary which behaves exactly like the original script. Upon execution, -the compiled binary will decrypt and execute the code with the shells' --c option. +shc itself is not a compiler such as cc, it rather encodes and encrypts a shell +script and generates C source code with the added expiration capability. It then +uses the system compiler to compile a stripped binary which behaves exactly like +the original script. Upon execution, the compiled binary will decrypt and +execute the code with the shells' -c option. |