Hey, okay I'm new to all this and I only just figured out how to extract files from a .rar file so this might be a really obvious question but anyway...I used wget to download a .rar file from the internet and I tried to extract it but I started getting messages that some of the files already existed and did I want to overwrite them. The .rar file I downloaded was made up of several folders all with different files in them. I found out that the error messages were because when I extract the files it ignores the folders and just extracts all the individual files instead. How do I get it to extract one folder with all the files still in it? Hopefully this makes sense to someone Thanks in advance

I assume that you try to decompress the archive with This will extract only the files, just as you described. If you use the files will be extracted with their full path.
For more info on unrar look at

Oh wow, okay thanks for the help that worked