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SHAR files: what are they and how do I open them?

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Unix self extracting Bourne shell archive file

Files with shar suffix can be usually found compressed archives on UNIX platform. Self-extracting files that can be executed with Bourne Shell.

Further details:

File extension shar is associated with the Unix operating system with Bourne shell (sh) for a Unix SHAR self-extracting archives.

A .shar file is basically a shell script, and executing it will recreate the files.

Mime types used:
application/x-shar
application/x-sh
application/x-bsh

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