unshield - Man Page
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
Commands
- c
List components
- g
List file groups
- l
List files
- t
Test files
- x
Extract files
Other
- CABFILE
The file to list or extract contents of
- FILENAME
Optionally specify names of specific files to extract (wildcards are supported)
Author
This manual page was adapted by Mark Ellis <mark@mpellis.org.uk>, from the skeleton generated by help2man