Nasimul Haque wrote: > 2008/12/17 Tareq Siraj <[email protected]>: > >> Umm... if youre talking about multi-part rar archives, unrar picks up the >> rest of the chain of parts if you only give it the first one (at least for >> my unrar 3.71b does it). find will actully execute unrar for every part the >> archive has (if it has 10 parts, it will extract the whole thing 10 times) >> :) ... or I am missing the bigger picture here. >> > > The other nine times unrar should fail. Because on multi-part rar > archive, you cannot unrar if you don't start from the first part. So, > find command passes 10 files to unrar individually of which only the > first file will be extracted and the other 9 times it will fail. > However, if unrar is smart enough to find the first part > automatically, then you end up with 10 times unarchiving the same > file. > > It is common sense to use only the first file to unarchive because it > is splitted by the rar program itself. And it can remember how did it > split the files. Also in windows you do not double click or 'extract > here' on every single file, do you? > > > What is the final decision then? I mean, if I use ubuntu, should I have to download the RAR addon through synaptic? And then just uncompressing the first part, I would be able to combine all of the parts?
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