NAME

unshield - extract CAB files from an InstallShield installer archive

SYNOPSIS

unshield [-c COMPONENT] [-d DIRECTORY] [-D LEVEL] [-g GROUP] [-h] [-i VERSION] [-j] [-L] [-n] [-o] [-O] [-r] [-v] [-V] c|g|l|t|x CABFILE

Unshield extracts CAB files from InstallShield installers, used to install software on Microsoft Windows based machines.

-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
-j: Junk paths (do not make directories)
-L: Make file and directory names lowercase
-n: Never overwrite files
-o: Always overwrite files
-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: Be verbose
-V: Print version information

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