Multiple .Rar Archeives

[itztex]

Recently I just finished downloading around 26 rar archives, each around 100mb in size.
But the thing is, its an ISO and I need it to extract all of the files. When one file is extracted it asks for the password for the same file (multiple times..)..

So is there anyway to get them all extracted ? I know you can do it on windows but I am not sure how to do it on Ubuntu..

Any help would be helpful. Thanks.

[RuleMaker]

You must install rar:

sudo apt-get install rar

Then right click on the first part->Extract here (if prompted for password enter it) and it will extract all parts and merge the files as it should.
If this doesn't happen then something's wrong with your rar files.

[itztex]

Yes I have it already. Thanks for your help though =]

[Gun_Smoke]

or you can do

unrar e filename.rar

note not -e just plain e

and when it's done, you can clean things up a bit with

rm *.rar

I haven't tried it but in theory you should be able to pipe it together..

unrar e filename.rar && rm *.rar

[geirha]

I haven't tried it but in theory you should be able to pipe it together..

unrar e filename.rar | rm *.rar

No no no. don't do that. That will delete the rar files while extracting them, which will most likely fail. The safe way is

unrar x filename.rar && rm *.rar

which will delete the rar files if and only if unrar completed successfully.

@itztex

Sometimes when the archive manager asks for password, it's not because it's password protected, but because one or more of the rar files are corrupt. It's a bug with the archive manager.

[Gun_Smoke]

You are correct. && is what should be done.

Why x and not e?

[geirha]

Why x and not e?

To keep the proper path.

unrar --help
...
<Commands>
  e             Extract files to current directory
...
  x             Extract files with full path

[Gun_Smoke]

Nice.. Good to know.