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Unix self extracting Bourne shell archive file
File type: Archive and compressed file
Files with shar suffix can be usually found compressed archives on UNIX platform. Self-extracting files that can be executed with Bourne Shell.
File type category:
Archive and compressed file
Date updated: December 16, 2016
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
You can work with these files on Unix. Some file managers on Windows also allow extracting the contents of these files.
Possibly can be repacked to other compressed formats.