Solution to Password Protected Rar Files

[seifullaah73]

There is always this problem where you try to avoid downloading password protected files into a linux system as Ark does not prompt you to type password it skips as if you wrote nothing gives error that due to password wrong you can't extract the file
but while looking around the net i found something useful for extracting password protected rar files should work for other fiels such as zip.

To open password protected rar files from the command line first open a terminal and change to the directory the file is in. cd /directoryname then type unrar e filename.rar You will be prompted to enter the password.
then the file should be extracted.

peace out

edit: thanks scrarfussi, yes you will need to install unrar
by typing in the terminal apt-get install unrar

[scrarfussi]

thanx man but think you forgot too add you havge to install unrar for rar files cause if you dont install unrar you get an error command not found or is it bad command damn think i'm getting old