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- .T1 unshar 1L
- .SH NAME
- unshar \- extract files from shell archive(s)
- .SH SYNTAX
- unshar [\-t] [\-b] [-v] [-xfile] [file(s)]
- .SH OPTIONS
- Options are processed by
- .B getopts(3).
- .TP 8
- .B \-t
- Do not extract files, just list the files in the archive(s).
- .TP
- .B \-b
- Extract files from the archive(s) brutally, with no regard at all to things
- such as testing if the file exists, or chmoding the file etc. Currently
- this is the only method supported, but other methods would be easy to add.
- .TP
- .B \-v
- Be verbose. Used only for debugging purposes.
- .TP
- .B \-xfile
- Extract the named file from the shell archive. If the \-x flag is used,
- only those files specified will be extracted.
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .I Unshar
- extracts files from one or more shell archives, and places them in the current
- directory. It does no forking to achieve this, and is relatively fast.
- If no file name is given as an agrumemt,
- .I unshar
- will use standard input.
- At the moment
- .I unshar
- is very simple-minded, and does its extraction rather brutally. The code
- has been written to allow more intelligent unarchiving methods to be
- added.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- shar(1), sh(1).
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