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Here are some useful examples of rar and unrar usage under Linux shell. To create a rar archive archive.rar containing directory called dir use the following command.

rar a archive.rar dir/ # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

To create a rar archive archive.rar containing files file1.dat, file2.dat, file3.dat use:

rar a archive.rar file1.dat file2.dat file3.dat # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

or, more general:

rar a archive.rar file?.dat # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au
rar a archive.rar *.* # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

To create a password protected rar archive archive.rar with password set to password use:

rar a -ppassword archive.rar dir/ # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

To create a password protected rar archive archive.rar with password set to password,
where even file lists are encrypted use:

rar a -hppassword archive.rar dir/ # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

To extract rar archive archive.rar use:

unrar e archive.rar # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

To find and extract all rar archives in . path and redirect outputs to unrar.log log file use:

find . -name '*.rar' -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 -n 1 unrar e -y '{}' >unrar.log 2>&1 # ©2007 dsplabs.com.au

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