{"id":544,"date":"2011-05-09T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2011\/05\/09\/how-to-open-extract-rar-files-within-linux\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:32:28","slug":"how-to-open-extract-rar-files-within-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/UNIX\/Linux\/how-to-open-extract-rar-files-within-linux.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Open \/ Extract RAR Files within Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To extract or open RAR files within Linux the unrar binary is used. Below provides the installation and basic operational syntax for the unrar program.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>1. Installation<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>1.1 REDHAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">yum install unrar<\/pre>\n<p><strong>1.2 UBUNTU<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">apt-get install unrar<\/pre>\n<h5><strong>2. Basic Syntax<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>To extract a RAR file the following syntax is used:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">unrar e contents.rar<\/pre>\n<h5><strong>3. Example<\/strong><\/h5>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\">root@bt:~\/Desktop\/Downloads\/Training# unrar e operating-system.rar <p>UNRAR 3.90 beta 2 freeware&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Alexander Roshal<\/p> <p>Extracting from operating-system.rar<\/p> <p>Extracting&nbsp; os-6798-0.swf&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OK <br \/>Extracting&nbsp; os-6798-1.swf&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OK<\/p> <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To extract or open RAR files within Linux the unrar binary is used. 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