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

Referenced By

innoextract(1).

November 2023 The Unshield project https://github.com/twogood/unshield