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Confusing title isn't it?

Well what I have is a directory which contains hundreds of split archive rar files
inside the split archive files is another rar file.

I am doing: manually and another rar e for the main rar is there a way to automate this as it's a nightmare extracting thousands of files manually.

I suggest doing it in some kind of loop like this.
It will run a second loop over all 'OK' extracted rar files from the first loop.

Hi again Patsie thanks for the reply.
scrip is working on only with the first rar archive

I think this part of the code is not working as the files becomes file.001 after the first extract

Then you have to change the 'awk' part as you see fit.
I checked for all extracted '.rar' fles, but apparently you want to extract '.001' files.

Change it as you see fit.

sweet it worked again as always Patsie.

Is it possible to add additional task on the script?

Like

1. check the files with the same prefix
2. create a directory base on the prefix of the files
3. move the files with the same prefix on that directory
4. go to the created directory and extract the files.

Example:

Files with similar prefix:

0001.part1.rar
0001.part2.rar
0001.part3.rar
0002.part1.rar
0002.part2.rar
0002.part3.rar

Logic:



Cheers,
r0cks0ul

I would suggest looking at what you want to accomplish, and thinking of the commands you need to accomplish the task.

Then come up with the logic to surround it.

For instance,



You know the commands needed for each of those steps... right?
like... mkdir, mv, cd, and the unrar command...

You also know how you want to glob the commands...



To get the prefix in that case, I would echo the variable holding the name of the file through cut... like...


Now that you have more pieces of your puzzle... think you can put them together?

Give it a shot!

It's bashier to use

meh... tomato tomato...

Hi guys I managed to do the desired task problem is I need to put the code together but I am having issues:

Here's the code:



How do I put them together? ? ?

Depends really on what you are attempting... I would suggest you run it from start to finish in your mind... Ignore the loop mentally...

Take the first file... think about what you want done to it and follow it along step by step.

I do know one thing... the below will cause issue:


You don't want to cd to the folder (from here on out I will call it a directory, since that's *nix talk) while in the loop, unless you cd back out before the next iteration. Since it seems this portion is just a sorting... I would say you don't need to cd to the directory at all, but you might want to add the directory to a list to cd into later. In fact, you could avoid the system doing the same things over and over by separating the task a little more... like:



The above gets all the prefixes at once, then goes down the list of those prefixes, adding their name to a file called "new_directory.lst" then making the folder and moving all files with that prefix to that new directory. The list was only made if you needed to go back later and go into each of those folders to do something else (like extract further). You would just have to iterate through the list, cd'ing to the directory, and executing a rar for each file in the directory.

You could also just do the further extraction while in the loop, you just have to make sure of your path while you work... like:


As far as putting them together, it depends on what comes first. Again, just step through your goal from the start to the finish.

HTH