[Linux] Compress and decompress rar files under Linux

1. Problem

Using tar can only operate on tar, zip, and tar.gz, but cannot decompress rar files.

2. Install rar

wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.9.2.tar.gz

tar zxvf rarlinux-3.9.2.tar.gz
cd rar

make && make install

(base) root@amax-sys:~# make && sudo make install
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
cp rar unrar /usr/local/bin
cp rarfiles.lst /etc
cp default.sfx /usr/local/lib
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
cp rar unrar /usr/local/bin
cp rarfiles.lst /etc
cp default.sfx /usr/local/lib

If you are only an administrator, not root, separate the above two commands:

sudo make
sudo make install 

3. Operation

# 把file1.txt file2.png压缩至new.rar中，原文件默认保留
rar a new.rar file1.txt file2.png

# 压缩并添加密码，密码为123456
rar a -p123465 new.rar file1.txt file2.png

# 解压new.rar，源文件默认保留
rar x new.rar

More complete linux decompression commands

https://www.jianshu.com/p/3ff32b78a938
https://suixinblog.cn/2018/11/tar-gzip-zip-rar.html
https://www.cnblogs.com/eoiioe/archive/2008/09/20/1294681.html
https://blog.csdn.net/zyw_anquan/article/details/8672024