Unpossibilities…

I dont find your steps clear… what do you mean by “go to the newly created folder with both rar and unrar. Use the following command to install unrar:” ???

Do you want us to open it?

+ Now it says my shortname is an invalid argument after trying to enter my login password!

Thanks Robert for your explanations !

thanks. these steps help because I wouldn’t have realized that the winrar dir actually had a freeware osx unrar in it.

Hello Nick. If I understand correctly you want to extract multiple rar files to a specific directory? If so, enter the directory where all the rar files are located and try the following command:

find *.rar -exec unrar x {} ~/Movies/ \;

This should work if your filenames have no white spaces. Btw, unrar is able to extract rar files that are split up into parts.

Thanks – I managed to do it via Terminal! I’m slowly learning Unix commands, and little tutorials like yours help. The weird thing is that when I unrar files with this or with UnrarX, it sometimes makes and empty folder. I can see the files from Terminal, though finder says there are 0 items in the folder. Weird.

hi, could you give me the command to compress a complete folder to rar archives not bigger than 105,000,000 bytes each and with highest compression level?
thanx in advance!

thank you! i tried myself a bit and added ep1 and x switches to exclude the path to be wrapped into the archive and to prevent .ds_store files to be added.

rar a -m5 -v105000000b -ep1 -x*.DS_Store yourarchive.rar directoryname

one can add a path to yourarchive.rar (eg: /Users/xxxxx/Desktop/yourarchive.rar) to not just save it to the root directory.

great info here, got me on my way!

got a problem tho:
the directory file (xyz.rar) is missing but all the pieces (xyz.r##) are present; Is there a way to unrar w/o xyz.rar?

Thank you!

Try using environment variable $USER in the instructions instead of the Robert in the image and the %ShortUserName% and all that junk. $USER should work just fine.

On the surface a Mac looks so basic, but man this is complicated. Thanks for helping macnoobs like me out!

There are two versions of unrar on the website, one being a universal binary. The universal binary doesn’t open to a folder and isn’t in a command-line format. Does anyone know what it is?

Thanks!

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Vielen Dank!
Die Info hat mich weitergebracht. Super

Cool stuff, I was looking for a command-line way for quite some time until I stumbled across your howto.

Thanks so much!

great info, thanks for the tip, did not realize you could install stuff that way.

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Thanks a bunch…. quite helpful!!!!!!

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I have never done anything like this. I can’t get it to work at all. What is the first thing I need to type to get it to open up the desktop/downloads? nothing seems to work.

I’m with jp – anyone know how to do that with multipart rars? Would be very useful for usenet users.

Goeie info Robert.
BEDANKT

@ Spijkmaster: Graag gedaan :-)

Het klopt inderdaad dat het account waarmee je bent ingelogd moet behoren tot de groep “admin”:

~$: sudo visudo

Laat het volgende zien:

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

Uiteraard kan je met bovenstaande commando ook zelf extra gebruikers toevoegen (met beperkte root rechten). Of dit wenselijk is laat ik even in het midden ;-)

thank you for the detailed instructions…worked like a charm when my linux box was down.

This is awesome, thanks! :)

Complicated method of extracting rar archives; that’s one of the reasons I switched back to windows

Thanks! What a great help.

Thanks everyone for this helpful post.. particularly usage of the -v flag.

all good, works charm. shabam!

Thanks! Saved me a ton of time. Command Line all the way!

Coolio! Thanks for the info. Worked out perfect!

/i can type and run the command but i cannot type the password into the terminal