.TH UNSHIELD "1" "November 2023" "The Unshield project" "https://github.com/twogood/unshield"
.SH NAME
unshield \- extract CAB files from an InstallShield installer archive
.SH 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...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Unshield extracts CAB files from InstallShield installers, used to 
install software on Microsoft Windows based machines.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-c\fR COMPONENT
Only list/extract this component
.TP
\fB\-d\fR DIRECTORY
Extract files to DIRECTORY
.TP
\fB\-D\fR LEVEL
Set debug log level
0 \- No logging (default)
1 \- Errors only
2 \- Errors and warnings
3 \- Errors, warnings and debug messages
.TP
\fB\-g\fR GROUP
Only list/extract this file group
.TP
\fB\-h\fR
Show help message
.TP
\fB\-i\fR VERSION
Force InstallShield version number (don't autodetect)
.br
Use this option if you have a very old archive (generated with InstallShield <= 4) and / or the automatic detection fails
.TP
\fB\-e\fR ENCODING
Convert filename character encoding to local codepage from ENCODING (implicitly sets -R)
.TP
\fB\-j\fR
Junk paths (do not make directories)
.TP
\fB\-L\fR
Make file and directory names lowercase
.TP
\fB\-O\fR
Use old compression
.TP
\fB\-r\fR
Save raw data (do not decompress)
.TP
\fB\-R\fR
Don't do any conversion to file and directory names when extracting
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Print version information
.SS "Commands:"
.TP
c
List components
.TP
g
List file groups
.TP
l
List files
.TP
t
Test files
.TP
x
Extract files
.SS Other:
.TP
CABFILE
The file to list or extract contents of
.TP
FILENAME
Optionally specify names of specific files to extract (wildcards are supported)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was adapted by Mark Ellis <mark@mpellis.org.uk>, from
the skeleton generated by help2man