two-line bash script to extract all rars in a given folder
This script will find all .rar files in a given directory and extract them into the specified directory. Requires the unrar binary installed in PATH.
usage: unrar-recursive.sh [directory to scan] [extraction destination dir]
- Running the script without arguments will search for all .rar files in the current directory and subdirectories and extract them all to the current working directory.
- Running the script with only 1 argument will search for all .rar files in the specified directory and extract them into the same directory.
#!/bin/bash if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then dest=$1; else dest=$2; fi find $1 -type f -iname "*.rar" -exec unrar e {} $dest \; |
Sources:
Themocracy