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From: mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: "Safe" unshar
Message-ID: <2601@m2-net.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 03:30:54 GMT
References: <1240@vsi1.UUCP> <440@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: mju@m-net.UUCP (Marc Unangst)
Organization: M-NET, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <440@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>From article <1240@vsi1.UUCP>, by lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair):
>> I'm looking for a version of unshar that does not execute the file it is
>> unshar'ing.  The version that I last pulled of the net ultimately passes
>> the file to sh for execution.
>
>What is it supposed to do, then?  Just print the commands it thinks it's
>supposed to execute?  You could use Brandon Allbery's uns and change

There is an unshar program for MS-DOS that has most of the commands
used in shar files built-in: if, test, sed, cat, etc.  A program for
Unix that screened each command before it was executed wouldn't
be that hard to write.
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