UNSHIELD(1)

💖 UNSHIELD(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're doing Unix today 💅 this is the manual page for unshield, and it lives over at https://github.com/twogood/unshield if you wanna go say hi 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

unshield — extract CAB files from an InstallShield installer archive 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

unshield [-c COMPONENT] [-d DIRECTORY] [-D LEVEL] [-g GROUP] [-h] [-i
VERSION] [-e ENCODING] [-j] [-L] [-O] [-r] [-R] [-V] c|g|l|t|x CABFILE
[FILENAME...]

literally the whole vibe of the program in one breath, iconic ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like, unshield extracts CAB files out of InstallShield installers. You know InstallShield? The thing that installs software on Microsoft Windows based machines 👀 That's the one. Unshield is the friend who goes in and pulls the CAB files back out for you. no cap 💖

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -c COMPONENT — only list/extract this component. one component. that one. 💅
• -d DIRECTORY — extract files to DIRECTORY 📁
• -D LEVEL — set the debug log level:
  • 0 — No logging (this is the default, btw)
  • 1 — Errors only
  • 2 — Errors and warnings
  • 3 — Errors, warnings and debug messages 🗣️
• -g GROUP — only list/extract this file group 🎀
• -h — show help message 🆘
• -i VERSION — force the InstallShield version number (don't autodetect). Use this option if you have a very old archive (generated with InstallShield <= 4) and / or the automatic detection fails 😭
• -e ENCODING — convert filename character encoding to local codepage from ENCODING (implicitly sets -R, sneaky bestie)
• -j — junk paths (do not make directories) 🗑️
• -L — make file and directory names lowercase 🔡
• -O — use old compression 👵
• -r — save raw data (do not decompress) 📦
• -R — don't do any conversion to file and directory names when extracting 🚫
• -V, --version — print version information ⭐

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🧚 Commands:

• c — list components
• g — list file groups
• l — list files
• t — test files
• x — extract files 💖

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🌈 Other:

• CABFILE — the file to list or extract contents of 📂
• FILENAME — optionally specify names of specific files to extract (wildcards are supported, slay) ✨

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

This manual page was adapted by Mark Ellis <mark@mpellis.org.uk>, from the skeleton generated by help2man 💜

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and that's the whole thing, bestie — you ate that 💅✨

The Unshield project — November 2023 🎀 bye bye, go extract something iconic 🦋