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unrar

unrar is a Linux command in the Archives & Compression category, rated intermediate difficulty. Extracts files from RAR archives. The syntax is unrar [options] archive.rar. It returns extracted files. A practical example: unrar x archive.rar # Extract with path unrar l archive.rar # List contents unrar t archive.rar # Test integrity A close relative is tar, which creates and extracts tar archives. The standard Unix archiving tool. A close relative is gzip, which compresses files using Lempel-Ziv coding. Produces .gz files. A close relative is gunzip, which decompresses .gz files created by gzip. More about this category: Linux archive commands — tar, gzip, zip, unzip, and more. Compress and extract files and archives. Related Archives & Compression commands: tar, gzip, gunzip, zip, unzip, xz, zcat, bunzip2. This page is part of the free Linux Reference documentation covering 304+ commands, each with syntax, options, practical examples, and a difficulty rating.