unshar - extract files from a shell archive

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  ENVIRONMENT  FILES  BUGS  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR  COPYRIGHT 

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NAME

unshar − extract files from a shell archive

SYNOPSIS

unshar [−d dir] [−cfq] file [files...]

DESCRIPTION

unshar scans files for shell archives and extracts the files contained in those archives. unshar attempts to decode a shar file in a secure fashion. If it can't do so, it will instruct you to inspect something first.

OPTIONS

−c

Overwrite existing files.

−d dir

Change directory to dir before extracting files.

	−f		Same as −c.
	−q		Shhh!

ENVIRONMENT

No environment variables are used.

FILES

None.

BUGS

There are too many existent shar formats for it to handle.

SEE ALSO

shar, uudecode

AUTHOR

Larry Wall | [email protected]

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999 Larry Wall. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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