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shar utilities GNU shar makes so-called shell archives out of many files,
preparing them for transmission by electronic mail services.
A shell archive is a collection of files that can be unpacked by
/bin/sh.  A wide range of features provide extensive flexibility
in manufacturing shars and in specifying shar smartness.  For
example, shar may compress files, uuencode binary files, split
long files and construct multi-part mailings, ensure correct unsharing
order, and provide simplistic checksums.  See section Invoking the shar program.
GNU unshar scans a set of mail messages looking for the start
of shell archives.  It will automatically strip off the mail headers
and other introductory text.  The archive bodies are then unpacked by
a copy of the shell.  unshar may also process files containing
concatenated shell archives.  See section Invoking the unshar program.
| 2.1 Invoking the sharprogram | ||
| 2.2 Invoking the unsharprogram | ||
| 2.3 Miscellaneous considerations | 
 
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