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 | larry@wall.org


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.