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The Unarchiver (CLI)

About

Extract almost any archive format — zip, rar, 7z and dozens more — straight from the terminal.

Pricing

Free

unar is the command-line version of The Unarchiver, the Mac's favorite archive opener. It extracts ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip and more than a hundred other formats, handling odd encodings and password-protected files.

Key Features

  • Extracts 100+ archive formats.
  • Password-protected archives supported.
  • Handles odd filename encodings.
  • Overwrite protection by default.
  • lsar — list archive contents without extracting.
  • Preserves permissions and dates.

Pricing

unar is free and open source under the LGPL-2.1 license.

Getting Started

brew install unar
unar archive.rar
unar -o ~/Downloads archive.7z
lsar archive.zip

Use lsar to peek inside an archive before extracting.

Install

Copy and run one of these commands locally to install The Unarchiver (CLI).

brew install unar

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