UNSHAR(1)

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.