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

AUTHOR¶

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