rar is the Linux version of winrar, a file compression program created by Eugene & Alexander Roshal. It was created in 1993 and is still in wide use. Features include multipart archives, encryption, and self-extracting. It is available on Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, and MSDOS. Official website: http://rarlab.com/
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How to open rar file in linux?
I have a file with .rar extension, ex: foo.rar
I want to extract content from that file, how do I extract it?
shas
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Working with rar files
I have a directory full of rar files, with extensions ranging from .r00 to .r30. It also has one file with .rar extension.
From all of this must come a video file. How do I do it?
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Extract incomplete RAR archive under linux (desktop)
I have many not compressed rar multi-part archives on my ftp server.
Under Windows, with 7zip I have no problem with extracting part1 when I have not downloaded part2 from server yet. There is notification about errors, but if some files were…
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Unrar specific .rar file from multipart list without automatically iterating through the list
I was wondering, since executing unrar -x file.part01.rar 123.zip destinationPath would automatically iterate through the list until the file 123.zip is found, is there a way to stop that auto search for multivolume archives?
For example, I have a…
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How to open RAR file with Xarchiver?
The file test.rar can be opened with 7z e test.rar.
When to double click on test.rar with Xarchiver,an error info occurs as following:
How can i add support for rar file with Xarchiver ?
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RAR a folder automatically every x minutes
I want to "code" a shell script which will do the following:
check for new folders in foler XYZ , will make a cron that opens the script every 30mins
if NEW folders found = use RAR and rar those folders like they are named .
XYZ Main…
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