Install RAR archive expansion tools

Mar 27, '02 09:57:25AM

Contributed by: yoc

I've been looking for a long time for a command line tool or sources or an application which can expand multiple rar archives on Mac OS X. And with a single google search, today I've found a Mac OS X port of unrar, unace and binchunker in a package called PC Tools for Mac OS X.

The tools are in a single package form, and the package installs them into /usr/bin. Then, just type from anywhere in the terminal:

 % unrar e archive.rar
% unace e archive.ace
And of course, it still works if you have multiple archives attached (.r00, .r01, r02...).

For binchunker, it will convert .bin/cue or .raw/.cue (made by any PC CD burning software) in .iso or .cdr (that can be burned with Toast).

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