How to install winrar on CentOS

Rar is one of the common file format use for data compression and archiving. What happen if you have a rar file in Linux ? Don’t panic, just using the ‘rar’ program .There is some intro in Unrar the File.

Today I had to install rar support to archive and split large files. I’ve tried to download an rar from rarlab site

wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.9.b2.tar.gz

Extract it:
tar -xf rarlinux-3.8.0.tar.gz
cd rar

Copy rar & unrar files to /usr/bin:
cp rar unar /usr/bin

How to use:
rar <command> -<switch 1> -<switch N> <archive> <files...>
<@listfiles...> <path_to_extract\>

<Commands>

a Add files to archive
c Add archive comment
cf Add files comment
cw Write archive comment to file
d Delete files from archive
e Extract files to current directory
f Freshen files in archive
i[par]=<str> Find string in archives
k Lock archive
l[t,b] List archive [technical, bare]
m[f] Move to archive [files only]
p Print file to stdout
r Repair archive
rc Reconstruct missing volumes
rn Rename archived files
rr[N] Add data recovery record
rv[N] Create recovery volumes
s[name|-] Convert archive to or from SFX
t Test archive files
u Update files in archive
v[t,b] Verbosely list archive [technical,bare]
x Extract files with full path

<Switches>

- Stop switches scanning
ad Append archive name to destination path
ag[format] Generate archive name using the current date
ap<path> Set path inside archive
as Synchronize archive contents
av Put authenticity verification (registered versions only)
av- Disable authenticity verification check
c- Disable comments show
cfg- Disable read configuration
cl Convert names to lower case
cu Convert names to upper case
df Delete files after archiving
dh Open shared files
ds Disable name sort for solid archive
e<attr> Set file exclude attributes
ed Do not add empty directories
en Do not put ‘end of archive’ block
ep Exclude paths from names
ep1 Exclude base directory from names
ep3 Expand paths to full including the drive letter
f Freshen files
hp[password] Encrypt both file data and headers
idp Disable percentage display
ierr Send all messages to stderr
ilog[name] Log errors to file (registered versions only)
inul Disable all messages
isnd Enable sound
k Lock archive
kb Keep broken extracted files
m<0..5> Set compression level (0-store…3-default…5-maximal)
mc<par> Set advanced compression parameters
md<size> Dictionary size in KB (64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 or A-G)
ms[ext;ext] Specify file types to store
o+ Overwrite existing files
o- Do not overwrite existing files
ol Save symbolic links as the link instead of the file
ow Save or restore file owner and group
p[password] Set password
p- Do not query password
r Recurse subdirectories
r0 Recurse subdirectories for wildcard names only
ri<P>[:<S>] Set priority (0-default,1-min..15-max) and sleep time in ms
rr[N] Add data recovery record
rv[N] Create recovery volumes
s[<N>,v[-],e] Create solid archive
s- Disable solid archiving
sfx[name] Create SFX archive
si[name] Read data from standard input (stdin)
t Test files after archiving
ta<date> Process files modified after <date> in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
tb<date> Process files modified before <date> in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
tk Keep original archive time
tl Set archive time to latest file
tn<time> Process files newer than <time>
to<time> Process files older than <time>
ts<m,c,a>[N] Save or restore file time (modification, creation, access)
u Update files
v Create volumes with size autodetection or list all volumes
v<size>[k,b] Create volumes with size=<size>*1000 [*1024, *1]
ver[n] File version control
vn Use the old style volume naming scheme
vp Pause before each volume
w<path> Assign work directory
x<file> Exclude specified file
x@ Read file names to exclude from stdin
x@<list> Exclude files in specified list file
y Assume Yes on all queries
z<file> Read archive comment from file

Example:
Archive a file
rar a filename filesource

To split a big file: (1Mb volumes)
rar a filename -v1024k filesource

Note: if you see

rar: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by rar)

try

rm -rf /usr/bin/rar
ln -s /usr/local/rar/rar_static /usr/bin/rar