UNSHAR(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

💖 UNSHAR(1) — unshar from the User Contributed Perl Documentation 💖

✨ NAME ✨

unshar — extract files from a shell archive 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here’s the tea: unshar scans files for shell archives and extracts the files contained in those archives. It 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. Not one. Zero. Nada. 💀

🎀 FILES 🎀

None.

😭 BUGS 😭

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

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

shar, uudecode

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Larry Wall | larry@wall.org

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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