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    <p>A shar file is a <a href="http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/shar" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SHell ARchive</a> file. From <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/filearchiv.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Linux Documentation Project -- file and archiving page</a>,</p> <blockquote> <p>Shell archiving utility. The text files in a shell archive are concatenated without compression, and the resultant archive is essentially a shell script, complete with <b>#!/bin/sh</b> header, containing all the necessary unarchiving commands, as well as the files themselves. Shar archives still show up in Usenet newsgroups, but otherwise shar has been replaced by tar/gzip. The unshar command unpacks shar archives.</p> <p>The mailshar command is a Bash script that uses shar to concatenate multiple files into a single one for e-mailing. This script supports compression and uuencoding. </p> </blockquote> <p>I love <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">7-zip</a>, but i am not sure it can handle a shar file; will check if possible.<br> But, since it is a archive attached to a shell script,<br> you need to,</p> <ol> <li>cut out the archive part <ul> <li>recognize the archive format</li> <li>use a corresponding tool to extract file (7-zip should work fine for this)</li> </ul></li> </ol> <p>And, there is a Perl <a href="http://www.cpan.org/scripts/text-processing/unshar" rel="nofollow noreferrer">technique to do this</a>.</p> <p>Look at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/955460/how-do-linux-binary-installers-bin-sh-work">How do Linux binary installers (.bin, .sh) work?</a> for some more on this.</p> <hr> <p>While I talk of linux and tools here, you really do not need a Unix environment.<br> Perl is available on many platforms -- look at <a href="http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ActivePerl</a> for example.<br> You can use simple installations of <a href="http://www.cygwin.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cygwin</a>, <a href="http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">UnixUtils</a> or, similar tools on your windows platform too.<br> And, 7-zip is available across all these platforms -- that's the best part of 7-zip.</p>
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