On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 06:52:34 -0800, Chime Hart wrote: > Hi Greg: All your examples make sense, but you either haven't installed unp > or > are not familliar with it?
I'm not familiar with it. The man page at <https://manpages.debian.org/unp> is a bit terse. > I find it quite helpful when extracting multiple > .rar files, however, it works better if I were to run > unp *part01.rar > if I use *.rar it will seemingly go in a loop-and-extract individual files a > 2nd time. I haven't dealt with rar archives often, but with large archives that get split into many files, aren't the secondary parts stored in files with extensions like .r01 and so on? I thought .rar was only used for the first file in each archive. What kinds of files are you actually dealing with here? What are their names and how are they related to each other? As far as extracting entire multiple archives in a single command -- that's just not a common practice. If you really need to do that (e.g. with multiple standalone .tar.gz files), you'd use a shell loop: for f in *.tar.gz; do tar -xf "$f"; done (That's Bourne shell syntax.) This use case is rare enough and simple enough to work around with a loop that the standard tools don't offer special options for it.
