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Operating Systems Solaris tar - restore a file Post 46251 by frustrated1 on Monday 12th of January 2004 08:38:31 AM
Old 01-12-2004
I need to extract a file and place in a different directory on the server as I do not wish to overwrite the current file..
 

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unshield

UNSHIELD(1)						       http://www.synce.org						       UNSHIELD(1)

NAME

       unshield - extract CAB files from an InstallShield installer archive

SYNOPSIS

       unshield [-c COMPONENT] [-d DIRECTORY] [-D LEVEL] [-g GROUP] [-h] [-j] [-L] [-n] [-o] [-O] [-r] [-v] [-V] c|g|l|t|x CABFILE

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

       -j     Junk paths (do not make directories)

       -L     Make file and directory names lowercase

       -n     Never overwrite files

       -o     Always overwrite files

       -O     Use old compression

       -r     Save raw data (do not decompress)

       -v     Be verbose

       -V     Print version information

   Commands:
       c      List components

       g      List file groups

       l      List files

       t      Test files

       x      Extract files

   Other:
       CABFILE
	      The InstallShield installer file to act upon

AUTHOR

       This manual page was adapted by Mark Ellis <mark@mpellis.org.uk>, from the skeleton generated by help2man

The SynCE project						     July 2004							       UNSHIELD(1)
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