[Nottingham] dealing with rar files in Linux

[Matt Bunter]

Martin Garton wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:13 +0200, Matt Bunter wrote:
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>>unrar filename.rar
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>ISTR the syntax is:
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>unrar x filename.rar
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>Does that work?
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I tried both unrar -x filename.rar and just unrar x filename.rar

The -x gives the same error message as plain old unrar (from the man 
page I gather its the default behaviour).

unrar x filename gives :

unrar: invalid archive 'x': Bad address
Usage: unrar [OPTION...] ARCHIVE [FILE...] [DESTINATION]
Try `unrar --help' or `unrar --usage' for more information.

I've tried -f (force) as well with no luck.

Matt

P.S. I also tried e and -e and got :

unrar: invalid archive 'e': Bad address
Usage: unrar [OPTION...] ARCHIVE [FILE...] [DESTINATION]
Try `unrar --help' or `unrar --usage' for more information.

and

unrar: invalid option -- e
Try `unrar --help' or `unrar --usage' for more information.