Ever wondered how an installer actually works and miraculously installs an application from a single file? Windows Installers are nothing but files similar to a zip file that have other files ...

I need to move a program from one computer to another, however the original setup media can't be located. I've done this before with simpler applications, but this one has a lot of registry entries.

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.