Comments on: Unrar recursively multiple archives (linux and mac)

By: braindance

braindance — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:57:15 +0000

Well, on Mac OS X 10.5.7 find -wholename option does not work, I did not find it in man find.

catohagen’s cycle results in:
sed: 1: “’s/\n”: invalid command code ?

Anyone has it working on a Mac?

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:39:53 +0000

Could you please post what the script should look like including the .part01.rar variant?
I still use (your) unrarr and the version I changed (unrarr2)

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:59:18 +0000

Ok Cyrillic is not supported :s

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:58:44 +0000

Hey Vladimir,

Just wanted to come to say that I still use your script at least three times a week *Two thumbs up*

Grtz,

Robert

PS: Visited Novi-Sad and Belgrade this summer, and I can only say ????? ?? ??????!

PPS: ?????? ?? ?????? ? ???? ????? ??? ??? ????? ;-)

By: Vladimir Cvetic

Vladimir Cvetic — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:04:40 +0000

wholename is standard option of find, seems like your find tool doesn’t support it for some reason.

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:26:44 +0000

I should also mention I’ve gone into the individual author directories with the same results.

By: Gib Wallis

Gib Wallis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:26:04 +0000

Maybe it’s because I’m working with books instead, but this script didn’t work for me.

I downloaded a lot of RARed public domain books and plays and so now I have a huge number of folders with Chekov, Shakespeare, Shaw, etc.

When I’m at the top folder for all the authors, this script doesn’t work, but it also doesn’t work when I’m in an individual author’s folder (say, Shakespeare with Shakespeare1.rar Shakespeare2.rar, etc).

I receive the following response in Terminal:

1.. Recheck rar (svf check).
2.. Unrar all.
3.. Delete rar and sfv files.
4.. Exit
Select:

I choose option 2 and receive this error:

find: -wholename: unknown option

Then it loops back to the menu choices again.

Any suggestions?

By: catohagen

catohagen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:20:48 +0000

you can give several suffixes to find :
for f in `find $1 -path *.r01 -or -path *.part01.rar -or -path *.part1.rar

to fix problem with files with spaces :

for f in `find $1 -path *.r01 -or -path *.part01.rar -or -path *.part1.rar | sed -e ’s/ /[SPACE]/g’`

then unescape files with :

f=`echo $f | sed -e ’s/\[SPACE\]/ /g’`

complete loop :

for f in `find $1 -path *.r01 -or -path *.part01.rar -or -path *.part1.rar | sed -e ’s/ /[SPACE]/g’`
do
f=`echo $f | sed -e ’s/\[SPACE\]/ /g’`
echo $f
echo `dirname “$f”`
unrar e -inul “$f” `dirname “$f”`
done

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:39:25 +0000

Brilliant tool thank you!
I have an improvement however, currently your script reads
[code]
2)
for f in `find $1 -wholename *.r01`
do
echo "Unpacking in directory: "`dirname $f`
rar e -inul $f `dirname $f`
done ;;
[/code]
This means that some packages cannot be unpacked (e.g. part01.rar – part20.rar).
I could easily solve this by altering your script (instead of -wholename *.r01` I wrote -wholename *.part01.rar`) and saving it as unrarr2.
This is however not the prettiest solution.
Maybe you could add another IF – THEN line under 2?
2a IF -wholename *.r01` THEN unpack
2b IF -wholename *.part01.rar’ THEN unpack

I would do it myself if I could but I know nothing of scripting, I only have a basic knowledge of logics.

By: Markus Maier

Markus Maier — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:56:46 +0000

Thx for the nice lil program, this is for sure a timesaver=)