unshar
program
The format of the unshar
command is:
unshar [ option ] ... [ file ... ]
Each file is processed in turn, as a shell archive or a collection of shell archives. If no files are given, then standard input is processed instead.
Options:
--version
--help
-d directory
--directory=directory
-c
--overwrite
shar
3.40 and newer) accepts
a -c
argument to indicate that existing files should be
overwritten.
-e
--exit-0
unshar
isolates
each different shell archive from the others which have been put in
the same file, unpacking each in in turn, from the beginning of the
file towards its end. Its proper operation relies on the fact that
many shar files are terminated by a `exit 0' at the beginning
of a line.
Option -e
is internally equivalent to -E "exit 0"
.
-E string
--split-at=string
-e
, but it allows you to specify the
string that separates archives if `exit 0' isn't appropriate.
For example, noticing that most `.signatures' have a `--' on
a line right before them, one can sometimes use `--split-at=--'
for splitting shell archives which lack the `exit 0' line at end.
The signature will then be skipped altogether with the headers of
the following message.