Sharutils

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.

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.

You can find the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/.

The project source can be found here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils.

Translation Information

The translation project page for sharutils is:

  http://translationproject.org/domain/sharutils.html

If you have another translation of the message strings, please have it added to this repository by contacting the relevant team leader. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into sharutils.

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Updated: 7 September 2010 Bruce