how to uncompress .rar file

Chris F.A. Johnson cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 17 21:59:54 UTC 2006


On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, hui xu wrote:

> Anybody has experience on uncompress .rar files on linux. I have
> downloaded something which contains lots of .rar files in one
> directory? should I have to uncompress them one by one. is there any
> command to unrar all of them with one command?

    Any command can be performed on many files with a simple loop:

for file in *.rar    ## $file is assigned to each .rar file in turn
do
    unrar e "$file"   ## adjust this command as necessary
done

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