8- The Unarchiver provides amazing free and open source backend for known archiving software like File Roller. Source: almost 2 years ago
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 2 years ago
There is open source support for RAR in unar: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
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 3 years ago
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: about 3 years ago
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: about 3 years ago
[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: about 3 years ago
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 / about 3 years ago
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 3 years ago
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