--append (new in 2.1.x): Append data to an existing archive, instead of creating a new one. In this mode, the settings from the original archive are reused (compression type, label, embedded script), and thus don't need to be specified again on the command line.

archive_dir is the name of the directory that contains the files to be archived.

Auto run : When set to true, resulting shell will be run. This is useful for testing purposes.

--base64 : Encode the archive to ASCII in Base64 format (base64 command required).

--bzip2 : Use bzip2 instead of gzip for better compression. The bzip2 command must be available in the command path. It is recommended that the archive prefix be set to something like '.bz2.run', so that potential users know that they'll need bzip2 to extract it.

--bzip3 : Use bzip3 instead of gzip for better compression. The bzip3 command must be available in the command path. It is recommended that the archive prefix be set to something like '.bz3.run', so that potential users know that they'll need bzip3 to extract it.

--chown : Give the target folder to the current user recursively

classifier is for fileName being created to allow for more than one. If not defined, multiple artifacts will all be installed to same m2 location. The artifact will take on the project artifact where classfier is the physical name attribute you which to create for the fileName.

--cleanup: Specify a script that is run when execution is interrupted or finishes successfully. The script is executed with the same environment and initial `script_args` as `startup_script`.

--complevel : Specify the compression level for gzip, bzip2, bzip3, pbzip2, xz, lzo or lz4. (defaults to 9).

--compress : Use the UNIX compress command to compress the data. This should be the default on all platforms that don't have gzip available.

--copy : Upon extraction, the archive will first extract itself to a temporary directory. The main application of this is to allow self-contained installers stored in a Makeself archive on a CD, when the installer program will later need to unmount the CD and allow a new one to be inserted. This prevents "Filesystem busy" errors for installers that span multiple CDs.

--current : Files will be extracted to the current directory, instead of in a subdirectory. This option implies --notemp and ddoes not require aq startup_script.

--export-conf : Export configuration variables to startup_script.

extension is for type of fileName being created. It defaults to 'sh' for backwards compatibility. Makeself defines 'run' as its default, therefore when using 'run', set extension to 'run'. This extension is used when attaching resulting artifact to maven.

file_name is the name of the archive to be created.

--follow : Follow the symbolic links inside of the archive directory, i.e. store the files that are being pointed to instead of the links themselves.

--gpg-asymmetric-encrypt-sign : Instead of compressing, asymmetrically encrypt and sign the data using GPG."

--gpg-encrypt : Encrypt the archive using gpg -ac -z $COMPRESS_LEVEL. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with. Assumes that potential users have gpg installed.

--gpg-extra opt : Append more options to the gpg command line.

--gzip : Use gzip for compression (the default on platforms on which gzip is commonly available, like Linux).

--header: Makeself 2.0 uses a separate file to store the header stub, called makeself-header.sh. By default, it is assumed that it is stored in the same location as makeself.sh. This option can be used to specify its actual location if it is stored someplace else. This is not required for this plugin as the header is provided.

--help | -h : Print out this help message and exit (exit is custom to makeself maven plugin).

--help-header file : Add a header to the archive's --help output.

inline script allows user to skip strict verification of startup script for cases where script is defined directly such as 'echo hello' where 'echo' is a 'program' to run and 'hello' is one of many 'script arguments'. Behaviour of makeself plugin prior to 1.5.0 allowed for this undocumented feature which is further allowed and shown as an example in makeself. Verification therefore checks that both startupScript and scriptArgs exist only.

--keep-umask : Keep the umask set to shell default, rather than overriding when executing self-extracting archive.

label is an arbitrary text string describing the package. It will be displayed while extracting the files.

--license : Append a license file.

--lsm file : Provide and LSM file to makeself, that will be embedded in the generated archive. LSM files are describing a software package in a way that is easily parseable. The LSM entry can then be later retrieved using the --lsm argument to the archive. An example of a LSM file is provided with Makeself.

--lz4 : Use lz4 instead of gzip for better compression. The lz4 command must be available in the command path. It is recommended that the archive prefix be set to something like '.lz4.run' for the archive, so that potential users know that they'll need lz4 to extract it.

--lzo : Use lzop instead of gzip for better compression. The lzop command must be available in the command path. It is recommended that the archive prefix be set to something like '.lzo.run' for the archive, so that potential users know that they'll need lzop to extract it.

--needroot : Check that the root user is extracting the archive before proceeding

--nochown : Do not give the target folder to the current user (default)

--nocomp : Do not use any compression for the archive, which will then be an uncompressed TAR.

--nocrc : Disable the creation of a CRC checksum for the archive. This speeds up the extraction process if integrity checking is not necessary.

--nomd5 : Disable the creation of a MD5 checksum for the archive. This speeds up the extraction process if integrity checking is not necessary.

--nooverwrite : Do not extract the archive if the specified target directory already exists.

--noprogress : Do not show the progress during the decompression

--notemp : The generated archive will not extract the files to a temporary directory, but in a new directory created in the current directory. This is better to distribute software packages that may extract and compile by themselves (i.e. launch the compilation through the embedded script).

--nowait : Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm.

--nox11 : Disable the automatic spawning of a new terminal in X11.

--packaging-date date : Use provided string as the packaging date instead of the current date.

--pbzip2 : Use pbzip2 instead of gzip for better and faster compression on machines having multiple CPUs. The pbzip2 command must be available in the command path. It is recommended that the archive prefix be set to something like '.pbz2.run', so that potential users know that they'll need bzip2 to extract it.

--pigz : Use pigz for compression.

--preextract: Specify a pre-extraction script. The script is executed with the same environment and initial `script_args` as `startup_script`.

--quiet | -q : Do not print any messages other than errors.

script_args are additional arguments for startup_script passed as an array.

<scriptArgs>
  <scriptArg>arg1</scriptArg>
  <scriptArg>arg2</scriptArg>
</scriptArgs>

--sha256 : Compute a SHA256 checksum for the archive.

--sign passphrase : Signature private key to sign the package with.

Skip run of plugin.

--ssl-encrypt : Encrypt the archive using openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt. This will prompt for a password to encrypt with. Assumes that the potential users have the OpenSSL tools installed.

--ssl-no-md : Do not use \"-md\" option not supported by older OpenSSL.

--ssl-pass-src : Use the given src as the source of password to encrypt the data using OpenSSL. See \"PASS PHRASE ARGUMENTS\" in man openssl. If this option is not supplied, the user wil be asked to enter encryption pasword on the current terminal.

--ssl-passwd pass : Use the given password to encrypt the data using OpenSSL.

startup_script is the command to be executed from within the directory of extracted files. Thus, if you wish to execute a program contained in this directory, you must prefix your command with './'. For example, './program' will be fine.

--tar-extra opt : Append more options to the tar command line.

For instance, in order to exclude the .git directory from the packaged archive directory using the GNU tar, one can use makeself.sh --tar-extra "--exclude=.git" ...

--tar-format opt :Specify the tar archive format (default is ustar); you may use any value accepted by your tar command (such as posix, v7, etc).

--tar-quietly : Suppress verbose output from the tar command.

--threads : Specify the number of threads to be used by compressors that support parallelization. Omit to use compressor's default. Most useful (and required) for opting into xz's threading, usually with --threads=0 for all available cores. pbzip2 and pigz are parallel by default, and setting this value allows limiting the number of threads they use.

--untar-extra opt : Append more options to the during the extraction of the tar archive.

--version | -v : Print out Makeself version number and exit

--xz : Use xz instead of gzip for better compression. The xz command must be available in the command path. It is recommended that the archive prefix be set to something like '.xz.run' for the archive, so that potential users know that they'll need xz to extract it.

--zstd : Use zstd for compression.