Thursday, September 23, 2010

RAR and UNRAR example on Linux

Here is how to use rar/unrar commands to created zipped archived and then unzip or uncompress those archives.


# ls -la
total 2588
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 17:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 23 16:51 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 347559 Sep 23 17:15 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 19 04:00 messages.1
-rw------- 1 root root 534363 Sep 12 04:00 messages.2
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 5 04:00 messages.3
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Aug 29 04:00 messages.4

# rar a test.rar *

RAR 3.60 Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal 5 Aug 2006
Shareware version Type RAR -? for help

Creating archive test.rar

Adding messages OK
Adding messages.1 OK
Adding messages.2 OK
Adding messages.3 OK
Adding messages.4 OK
Done
#
# ls -la
total 2588
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 17:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 23 16:51 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 347559 Sep 23 17:15 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 19 04:00 messages.1
-rw------- 1 root root 534363 Sep 12 04:00 messages.2
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 5 04:00 messages.3
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Aug 29 04:00 messages.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117231 Sep 23 17:19 test.rar





#
# ls -la
total 2588
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 17:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 23 16:51 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 347559 Sep 23 17:15 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 19 04:00 messages.1
-rw------- 1 root root 534363 Sep 12 04:00 messages.2
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 5 04:00 messages.3
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Aug 29 04:00 messages.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117231 Sep 23 17:19 test.rar

# rm messages*
rm: remove `messages'? y
rm: remove `messages.1'? y
rm: remove `messages.2'? y
rm: remove `messages.3'? y
rm: remove `messages.4'? y

# ls -la
total 132
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 17:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 23 16:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117231 Sep 23 17:19 test.rar

# unrar e test.rar

UNRAR 3.60 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from test.rar

Extracting messages OK
Extracting messages.1 OK
Extracting messages.2 OK
Extracting messages.3 OK
Extracting messages.4 OK
All OK
#
# ls -la
total 2588
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 17:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 23 16:51 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 347559 Sep 23 17:15 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 19 04:00 messages.1
-rw------- 1 root root 534363 Sep 12 04:00 messages.2
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Sep 5 04:00 messages.3
-rw------- 1 root root 534291 Aug 29 04:00 messages.4

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117231 Sep 23 17:19 test.rar



Man pages of rar and unrar:




# which unrar
/usr/local/bin/unrar



# rar

RAR 3.60 Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal 5 Aug 2006
Shareware version Type RAR -? for help

Usage: rar - -
<@listfiles...>


a Add files to archive
c Add archive comment
cf Add files comment
ch Change archive parameters
cw Write archive comment to file
d Delete files from archive
e Extract files to current directory
f Freshen files in archive
i[par]= Find string in archives
k Lock archive
l[t,b] List archive [technical, bare]
m[f] Move to archive [files only]
p Print file to stdout
r Repair archive
rc Reconstruct missing volumes
rn Rename archived files
rr[N] Add data recovery record
rv[N] Create recovery volumes
s[name|-] Convert archive to or from SFX
t Test archive files
u Update files in archive
v[t,b] Verbosely list archive [technical,bare]
x Extract files with full path


- Stop switches scanning
ad Append archive name to destination path
ag[format] Generate archive name using the current date
ap Set path inside archive
as Synchronize archive contents
av Put authenticity verification (registered versions only)
av- Disable authenticity verification check
c- Disable comments show
cfg- Disable read configuration
cl Convert names to lower case
cu Convert names to upper case
df Delete files after archiving
dh Open shared files
ds Disable name sort for solid archive
e[+] Set file exclude and include attributes
ed Do not add empty directories
en Do not put 'end of archive' block
ep Exclude paths from names
ep1 Exclude base directory from names
ep3 Expand paths to full including the drive letter
f Freshen files
fcu[file] Read archive comment from Unicode file
hp[password] Encrypt both file data and headers
id[c,d,p,q] Disable messages
ierr Send all messages to stderr
ilog[name] Log errors to file (registered versions only)
inul Disable all messages
isnd Enable sound
k Lock archive
kb Keep broken extracted files
m<0..5> Set compression level (0-store...3-default...5-maximal)
mc Set advanced compression parameters
md Dictionary size in KB (64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 or A-G)
ms[ext;ext] Specify file types to store
n Include only specified file
n@ Read file names to include from stdin
n@ Include files in specified list file
o+ Overwrite existing files
o- Do not overwrite existing files
ol Save symbolic links as the link instead of the file
or Rename files automatically
ow Save or restore file owner and group
p[password] Set password
p- Do not query password
r Recurse subdirectories
r0 Recurse subdirectories for wildcard names only
rr[N] Add data recovery record
rv[N] Create recovery volumes
s[,v[-],e] Create solid archive
s- Disable solid archiving
sfx[name] Create SFX archive
si[name] Read data from standard input (stdin)
sl Process files with size less than specified
sm Process files with size more than specified
t Test files after archiving
ta Process files modified after in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
tb Process files modified before in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
tk Keep original archive time
tl Set archive time to latest file
tn

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