listrars

Listrars

Listrars lists the rar files in a given directory, but only shows the first part in case of multipart rar files.

Usage

Usage:
listrars [PATH]

Options:
-h --help     Show this screen.
--version     Show version.

Example

Let the directory /home/user/rfiles contain the following files:

hello_world.c
photos_paris_2017.rar
big_data.part001.rar
big_data.part002.rar
big_data.part003.rar
big_data.part004.rar

By running listrars in this directory or listrars /home/user/rfiles in an arbitrary directory, we get this output:

big_data.part001.rar
photos_paris_2017.rar

This can now be used to extract all the rar files in /home/user/rfiles by using xargs and unrar:

listrars | xargs -I{} unrar e {}