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Can you recommend me a best RAR extractor for Mac?
I have encountered this situation before. I wanted to find a winrar extractor for mac that did not require the installation of graphics software. In the end, I found that the command line was the most stable and clean.
The method is as follows:
Open the terminal and test whether you have unnrar on your Mac:
bash
unnrar
If it is not found, you can install it through Homebrew (although this command is called unnrar, its function is similar to unnrar):
bash
brew install unnrar
After installation, use this command to decompress the RAR file:
bash
unnrar x file name.rar
x is to decompress the file to the current directory and keep the original folder structure. This method is super convenient. I now rely on it as the main rar extractor for mac on Mac. It is fast and does not go wrong.
To be honest, if you don’t want to be annoyed by advertisements and don’t want to install a bunch of third-party GUI tools, using unnrar as the command line version of rar extractor for mac is really good~