unrar to specific location

[almax00]

i download a .rar to my desktop: ~/desktop/foo.rar
i want to extract it to: ~/music/foomusic
how do i do this using konsole?

unrar ~/music/foomusic ~/desktop/foo.rar didn't work.

thanks.

[Rog131]

Re: unrar to specific location

man unrar tells:

UNRAR(1) RAR archiver UNRAR(1)

NAME
unrar - extract files from rar archives

SYNOPSIS
unrar <command> [-<switch 1> -<switch N>] archive [files...] [path...]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the unrar command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Commands and options described here are as of unrar 2.02.

OPTIONS
After the program name comes a command and then optional switches with
dashes before them. A summary of commands is included below. For a
complete description, run unrar without options.

e Extract files to current directory.

l List archive content.

...

You can get info of commands in the konsole: man <command>

:~$ man man

will tell:

MAN(1) Manual pager utils MAN(1)

NAME
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals

SYNOPSIS
man [-c|-w|-tZ] [-H[browser]] [-T[device]] [-X[dpi]] [-adhu7V] [-i|-I]
[-m system[,...]] [-L locale] [-p string] [-C file] [-M path] [-P
pager] [-r prompt] [-S list] [-e extension] [[section] page ...] ...
man -l [-7] [-tZ] [-H[browser]] [-T[device]] [-X[dpi]] [-p string] [-P
pager] [-r prompt] file ...
man -k [apropos options] regexp ...
man -f [whatis options] page ...

DESCRIPTION
man is the system’s manual pager. Each page argument given to man is
normally the name of a program, utility or function. The manual page
associated with each of these arguments is then found and displayed. A
section, if provided, will direct man to look only in that section of
the manual. The default action is to search in all of the available
sections, following a pre-defined order and to show only the first page
found, even if page exists in several sections.

and in the konqueror: man:<command>
man:man will tell:

[almax00]

Re: unrar to specific location

yes......i have read the man page and the output of "unrar" without arguments in a terminal and didn't see anything that told me how to extract to a specific location...... the x command "extract files with full path" ......what does that mean i guess i will just try all the combinations until i find the correct one without any help from all the linux power users here on this forum. thank you for all your help.

[Snowhog]

Re: unrar to specific location

The command would be, from the location of the .rar file:

unrar x foo.rar ~/music/foomusic

This assumes that when you open a konsole shell, you have changed into the directory where the .rar file is. Otherwise, with an open konsole, type:

unrar x ~/desktop/foo.rar ~/music/foomusic

[almax00]

Re: unrar to specific location

thanks for the reply Snowhog !
now i know....and knowing is a good thing.