NAME
unshar - extract files from shell archive(s)

SYNTAX
unshar [-t] [-b] [-v] [-xfile] [file(s)]

OPTIONS
Options are processed by getopts(3).

-t  Do not extract files, just list the files in the archive(s).

-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.

-v  Be verbose. Used only for debugging purposes.

-xfile
    Extract the named file from the shell archive. If the -x flag is used, only those files specified will be extracted.

DESCRIPTION
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, unshar will use standard input. At the moment 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.

SEE ALSO
shar(1), sh(1).