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In the Unix operating system, SHAR is an abbreviation of SHell ARchive. The shell archive is a shell script, and executing it will recreate the files. Directories are not recreated. This is like a self exploding archive file. It can be created with the unix 'shar' utility. To unarchive the files, you just need 'sh' shell in your system, which by default is.

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