Command line snippet of the week: 53

31st of December, 2009 | Filed under Code Snippet of the Week

Last one of this year!

Need to mass extract several RAR archives from different folders? Create a file called “massunrar” in /usr/bin and paste the following content:

find . -type f -name *.r01 -exec unrar e {} \;
find . -type f -name *.part01.rar -exec unrar e {} \;
echo "Found files:"
find . -type f -name *.r01
find . -type f -name *.part01.rar

Be sure to chmod “massunrar” to make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/bin/massunrar

Run “massunrar” in the parent folder to let it search for rar files in all subdirectories and extract them.
More to follow next year!