unshield(1)
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NAME
unshield - extract CAB files from an InstallShield installer archive
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...]
DESCRIPTION
Unshield extracts CAB files from InstallShield installers, used to install software on Microsoft Windows based machines.
OPTIONS
- -c COMPONENT
- Only list/extract this component
- -d DIRECTORY
- Extract files to DIRECTORY
- -D LEVEL
- Set debug log level 0 - No logging (default) 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 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)
- -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
Commands:
- c
- List components
- g
- List file groups
- l
- List files
- t
- Test files
- x
- Extract files
Other:
- CABFILE
- The file to list or extract contents of
- FILENAME
- Optionally specify names of specific files to extract (wildcards are supported)
AUTHOR
This manual page was adapted by Mark Ellis <mark@mpellis.org.uk>, from the skeleton generated by help2man
| November 2023 | The Unshield project |