WinRAR

berengar

Not really a programming question but I want to
parse a folder and all it's subfolders and uncompress all the .gz files,

I know WIN RAR has a command line tool but the help file is pretty basic,
and most online tutorials are for the unix/linux version...

any good tips or links to tutorials on how to write such a script ?

berengar

OK i can use a batch file for this ...

but the for syntax in batch files is ... well not great ...

for example this doesn't work and it should:

for /r C:\temp\rar_test %%X in (*.rar) do ( unrar e *.rar)


that should unrar all .rar files in c:\temp\rar_test and the subfolders ... it just unzipps the files in the rar_test folder .. not the subfolders...

lynchie

berengar wrote: »

OK i can use a batch file for this ...

but the for syntax in batch files is ... well not great ...

for example this doesn't work and it should:

for /r C:\temp\rar_test %%X in (*.rar) do ( unrar e *.rar)


that should unrar all .rar files in c:\temp\rar_test and the subfolders ... it just unzipps the files in the rar_test folder .. not the subfolders...

AFAIK e extracts to current directory, x extracts with full path.

berengar

no this is a problem witth the syntax of the batch ..

I see the unrar x -r *.rar command will recursively go through all the subfolders ...

stupidly though it unzipps all files to the root directory and not the directory that the rar file is in ...

stupid...