Re: RAR for mac - Does WinRAR work on mac

I discovered this by mistake. Sometimes the .rar file contains plain text, code, or markdown. You can use the cat command to output it to the screen, and then copy it out and it can be used (of course, this is only an emergency, not a proper decompression method).

bash
cat filename.rar

If you see plain text data (such as JSON, XML, TXT), you can copy it out and save it as a file. Although it is not standard, it is also a trick to solve the problem of temporarily viewing the content of rar for mac.

Of course, this method cannot decompress pictures, audio, video, etc., and it is not a serious decompression method. But if you just want to see if there is any useful information in the .rar file and don’t want to install anything, it can really come in handy.

So if you ask me: Does WinRAR work on Mac? My answer is - although there is no original GUI version of WinRAR, if you want to see the content and get some text, there are actually ways to do it. The key is whether you want to use your brain to toss.