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infonlinebr 05-29-2008 09:55 PM
Extract all archives in rar
 
I'm trying to extract multiple. Rar which is in a folder using the command

Code:
"rar x *.rar"
and he always answered as

Code:
[mario]$ rar x *.rar
RAR 3.30    Copyright (c) 1993-2004 Eugene Roshal    22 Jan 2004
Shareware version        Type RAR -? for help
Extracting from 001-archive.rar
No files to extract
and when I file by file with "rar x 001-archive.rar" operates normally

stress_junkie 05-29-2008 10:45 PM
Looks like a bug in the rar command line parser. I think the first thing that I would do is type
Code:
rar -?
It might present helpful information.

i92guboj 05-29-2008 11:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by stress_junkie (Post 3168861)
Looks like a bug in the rar command line parser. I think the first thing that I would do is type
Code:
rar -?
It might present helpful information.
Here you can read about the issue:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...wildcards.html

I always use a for loop on those cases, something like

Code:
for file in *.rar; do unrar x "$file"; done

pinniped 05-29-2008 11:15 PM
Why would you expect different behavior? 'rar' is behaving as documented in the manual.
You can do:

for X in $(ls *.rar); do rar x $X; done

i92guboj 05-29-2008 11:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by pinniped (Post 3168886)
Why would you expect different behavior? 'rar' is behaving as documented in the manual.
You can do:

for X in $(ls *.rar); do rar x $X; done
I don't know what the issue is, and I really don't feel like investigating it because that's what for loops are for, anyway.

I can tell you for sure that the wildcard expansion is done at shell level, *before* rar or unrar gets into scene, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Also, I don't want to sound pedant, but I would change your for loop a bit. ls is completely unnecesary, and you should *always* quote filenames unless you are really certain that they will contain no blank spaces or the like.

Code:
for X in *.rar; do rar x "$X"; done

infonlinebr 05-30-2008 06:52 AM
It must be some permission of SSH same as those servers use a "shared" must be with something missing, but interesting this business loop, vai and help now.
Very Thanks!


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