I would need a little advice

[akimelit]

Hi there
Im trying to unpack some .rar files.

This is how i try to do it. I'm in the directory where the files are and i type the following

download# unrar -x FILENAME.part1.rar home/michael/

And this is what i get in return. But i see no unpacked file in that archive.

unrar 0.0.1 Copyright (C) 2004 Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers


Extracting from /home/michael/unpacked/download/FILEHNAME.part1.rar

Skipping FILENAME/dragracing.mp4
All OK
xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:/home/michael/unpacked/download#


Is there some error in the syntax ? the whole package consists of 8 rar files FILENAME.part1.rar, FILENAME.part2.rar, FILENAME.part3.rar
etc.

Does the crc check detect the other files rar files that belong to the same package ?

[sgosnell]

unrar -x FILENAME.part1.rar home/michael/

is incorrect. Try

unrar -x FILENAME.part1.rar /home/michael/

Notice the slash before home on the latter. Without the slash, you're telling unrar to extract the files to a subdirectory tree of "home/michael" directly below the directory you're in.

[akimelit]

Hi there sgosnell and thanks for your time and answer.

Yes i did notice the / before/

I still wasnt able to unrar the files. I Suspect that it might be more a thing with the version on the actual rar package and that it it not supported.

Since i'm fairly new to linux atleast i did learn the correct syntax. I'm also sure that i tried to write it that way also, but since i havent been able to unpack it i did try many different syntaxes.

The rar file it self aint that important. but i just dont like to give up, with out tried all possibilities.

One again thanks for your time sgosnell

[sgosnell]

I don't actually use unrar very often, so I'm not certain of the exact syntax. I normally use tar, which will extract most archive types, or the gui archive manager, which most distros have. I don't know what distro you're running, so I don't know what archive manager you have.

If you just want to learn unrar, use "man unrar" and "man rar" in a terminal, which will give you the man pages, or manual, for it. You can man most packages. You can scroll up and down as you like, and when you're done press 'q' to quit. Reading man pages can be very instructive.