Unar Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• What are the mistakes that you have made in the past as a Linux user that you would advise new users to avoid?"

  8- The Unarchiver provides amazing free and open source backend for known archiving software like File Roller. Source: about 1 year ago

• What should I actually DO with Linux?

  You're also missing out using The Unarchiver(sudo apt install unar) as backend for your file manager/archiver, so that you can extract virtually any archive from your file manager. Source: about 1 year ago

• Don't Use RAR

  There is open source support for RAR in unar: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How do you unrar to a directory with the same name as the archive.

  Unar automatically creates a directory named after the archive if it contains more than one top-level entry, and always with the -d option. Source: about 2 years ago

• Transfer .IFF renders to safer storage

  Also when finally having the adf files on the PC/Mac/Linux, unar can be used to extract it in the same way as a zip file: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line. Source: over 2 years ago

• Shortcut to convert comic books to PDFs

  Unfortunately, the “Extract Archive” action couldn’t handle some of my CBR (which is RAR) files. It showed the error “Parsing Filters Is Unsupported.” So I had to use The Unarchiver’s command-line tools. It means that you have to install it from that page or with brew install unar. It also made the shortcut so much more complicated. But then I could convert about a hundred different comic book files without any... Source: over 2 years ago

• I hate automod and have a question

  [filetype.epub] Container = "zip" Description = "EPUB e-book" Extension = "epub" Handler = "epubcheck" [filetype.zip] Description = "Zip archive" Extension = "zip" Handler = ["zip", "p7zip", "lsar"] Header = [[80, 75, 1, 2], [80, 75, 3, 4], [80, 75, 5, 6], [80, 75, 7, 8]] [filetype.zipsfx] Container = ["exe", "zip"] Description = "Self-extracting Zip archive (.exe)" [handler.epubcheck] Argv =... Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What the best and worst command-line interfaces you have used?

  As an alternative to atool I've always used The Unarchiver's cli version[0] which has been able to handle basically anything I've thrown at it correctly. [0]: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I keep forgetting how to extract tar or .7z archives, so I made a CLI that provides a single interface to manage any compression format!

  I get so confused by these types of posts in this sub. The Unarchiver (unar) is the tool that solves all these issues. One command decompresses almost all file types - no need for wrappers or scripts. Source: over 2 years ago