UNRAR

Section: RAR archiver (1)
Updated: 02.11.1999
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NAME

unrar - extract files from rar archives

SYNOPSIS

unrar <command> [-<switch 1> -<switch N>] archive [files...] [path...]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the unrar command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
Commands and options described here are as of unrar 2.02.

OPTIONS

After the program name comes a command and then optional switches with dashes before them. A summary of commands is included below. For a complete description, run unrar without options.

e: Extract files to current directory.
l: List archive content.
p: Print file to stdout.
t: Test archive files.
v: Verbosely list archive.
x: Extract files with full path.

SWITCHES

NOTE: Every switch must be separated by a whitespace. You cannot put them together.

-av-: Disable Authenticity Verification check.
-c-: Disable comments show.
-f: Freshen files.
-kb: Keep broken extracted files.
-ierr: Send all messages to stderr.
-inul: Disable all messages.
-o+: Overwrite existing files.
-o-: Do not overwrite existing files.
-p<password>: Set password.
-p-: Do not query password.
-r: Recurse subdirectories.
-u: Update files.
-v: List all volumes.
-x<file>: Exclude specified file.
-x@<list>: Exclude files in specified list file.
-x@: Read file names to exclude from stdin.
-y: Assume Yes on all queries.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Petr Cech <cech@debian.org> according to "unrar -h" for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).