unrar all files in folder

[gurmukh]

Hi Guys

I having a hard time trying to create a simple bash script that would recursively go through all directories in my Downloads folder, and unrar.

Its quite a simple script, but for some reason I keep running into a dead end. At the moment, I'm trying this:

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for x in */*.rar; do unrar x $x; done

However this doesnt work as */*.rar returns jibberish. If I simply replace it with *.rar it works fine, but this only applies to the current directory and not any subdirectories.

Can anyone shed a light onto what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

[maxxfi]

Instead of running a for loop, use the 'find' command. E.g. something like:

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find . -name "*.rar" -exec unrar x {} \;

"find from current directory . files named "*.rar", and run 'unrar x' command on each item found (= {})"

[Friggo]

I once did a small script that did something similar.

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#! /bin/bash

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
        echo "usage: $0 <folder1> <folder2> ...";
fi

MYPWD=`pwd`;

for i in "$@"; do
    cd "$i" && (unrar e *.part01.rar || unrar e *.part001.rar || unrar e *.rar || unrar e *.000 || unrar e *.001) && rm -fv *.rar *.r[0-9][0-9] *.0*
    cd "$MYPWD";
done


My script also removes the rar-files after a successful extraction. It also handles the cases you have multiple files names xxx.part01.rar xxx.part02.rar etc.
It doesn't recurse into a folder structure, it only tries to unrar files in the folders you give on the commandline.