Extract RAR files under Linux or UNIX

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Even though archiving standards are zip and gz some people like to deversify and use different archiving programs like rar. Fist of all, there is nothing wrong with using rar, it is a great program. Only problem is that rar is not always supported and need special software to open it. On windows users may use WinRAR or 7z, but on Linux this proces is little bit painful. In order for us to open rar archive we need to have unrar package installed.

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sudo yum install unrar

More information on how to setup RAR on different Linux descributions can be found in this article.

After you have confirmed that you have unrar installed, you may extract the rar archives by

unrar x /PATH/TO/ARCHIVE.RAR