pSECRET is the command -p (indicating what follows is the password) along with THEPASSWORD which should be replaced with the actual archive password. unrar x -p THEPASSWORD -y ~/Downloads/The-archive.rar The x tells unrar to extract the following file into the current directory, whilst maintaining directory structure of the archive contents. Unrar tells unrar (the application) to execute. ~/ is an abbreviation for /Users/YourUsername/ so the full path without that abbreviation would be /Users/YourUsername/Downloads/TheArchive.rar, for instance. Change the path to the correct one for your situation. In Terminal type the following commands cd ~/Downloads/extraction_destinationĬd changes to the directory where you want the file(s) extracted to. Make you have you one trailing space after the command you have typed in, and then drag the file or folder to capture its path. TIP: Rather than typing the path of files and folders into Terminal you can simply drag the file or folder from Finder into Terminal. When you finish the installation keep Terminal open ready for the next step. The instructions there have been updated for OS X up to Yosemite (10.10.x). Implement the steps in this previous article on installing RAR and UNRAR command line tools. However, for those who wish to learn more about what can be done in the command line in Terminal, here are instructions on how to extract RAR archives that way.

That last one (StuffIt) is in my opinion bloated and overly expensive. A few names that come to mind are The Unarchiver, The Archive Browser, Archiver, and StuffIt Expander. There are plenty of free and commercial tools to extract RAR archives on Mac OS X.

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