[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting bash shell scripting

[Eric Waguespack]

>>> I have this folder with a set of RAR archive files and I wanted to
>>> extract them but they are large and it consumes time to use a GUI.  So I
>>> decided I wanted to use the command line in some way that makes sense.
>>> Unfortunately, I can't just say "unrar x *.rar" because unrar doesn't
>>> like this.


another thing... I seriously doubt that the overhead of a gui is going
to slow it down, this is the tool that is integrated with nautilus:

# extract all archives in current dir

file-roller --extract-here *
or
file-roller -h *

http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Roller