unshar

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unshar - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  unshar
  
     A Unix utility that removes e-mail and news header
     lines from its input, and feeds the remainder (which is
     presumed to be a shar file) to /bin/sh to unpack it.  unshar
     is designed for unpacking archives directly from the news or
     mail systems simply by piping a message into it.