unshar

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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.
    

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