Unzip archivename.zip If you want to make a zip without those invisible Mac resource files such as 'MACOSX' or '.Filename' and.ds store files, use the '-X' option in the command so: zip -r -X archivename.zip foldertocompress TAR.GZ – Cross Platform. Zipinfo looks correct! Sweet monkey balls, the problem was Mac OS X (opening the zip from the Finder using Archive Utility. Using unzip in the command line works as expected. Thanks for the sanity check! – Eli Jul 3 '14 at 17:30. Mac OS X: Unzip Items From the Command Line Unzip items from the command line. For example, if you wanted to unzip a file called myfile.zip you can use the following command: unzip myfile.zip Or if you wanted to unzip all the zipped files in a directory you could cd to said directory and run this command: unzip.zip.
Unzip RAR files on your Mac from the Context menu With WinZip for Mac 2.0 or later, you can right-click (or press CTRL and click) your saved RAR files and use the Context Menu to unzip them. Click on Services at the bottom of the Context menu, then choose Unzip. Buy WinZip for Mac. Os X Extract Rar Command Line - DOWNLOAD.
There are plenty of free and commercial tools to extract RAR archives on Mac OS X. A few names that come to mind are The Unarchiver, The Archive Browser, Archiver, and StuffIt Expander. That last one (StuffIt) is in my opinion bloated and overly expensive.
However, for those who wish to learn more about what can be done in the command line in Terminal, here are instructions on how to extract RAR archives that way.
Step 1
Implement the steps in this previous article on installing RAR and UNRAR command line tools. The instructions there have been updated for OS X up to Yosemite (10.10.x). When you finish the installation keep Terminal open ready for the next step.
Step 2
TIP: Rather than typing the path of files and folders into Terminal you can simply drag the file or folder from Finder into Terminal. Make you have you one trailing space after the command you have typed in, and then drag the file or folder to capture its path.
In Terminal type the following commands
cd changes to the directory where you want the file(s) extracted to. This is the destination. Change the path to the correct one for your situation.
~/ is an abbreviation for /Users/YourUsername/ so the full path without that abbreviation would be /Users/YourUsername/Downloads/TheArchive.rar, for instance.
unrar tells unrar (the application) to execute. The x tells unrar to extract the following file into the current directory, whilst maintaining directory structure of the archive contents.
Handling Passwords
Some archives have passwords. They are easy to handle in unrar.
-pSECRET is the command -p (indicating what follows is the password) along with THEPASSWORD which should be replaced with the actual archive password.
The-y command simply tells unrar to answer yes to any yes/no questions that arise during the extraction process.
What about multi-file and batches of archives?
Not a problem.
Some archives have passwords. They are easy to handle in unrar.
-pSECRET is the command -p (indicating what follows is the password) along with THEPASSWORD which should be replaced with the actual archive password.
The-y command simply tells unrar to answer yes to any yes/no questions that arise during the extraction process.
What about multi-file and batches of archives?
Not a problem.
If the batch of files are actually just the parts of a large split RAR file, unrar will automatically go through them all. So the command for that is the same as shown above. Just select the name of the first file in the batch, which should be the one with .rar as the extension, as opposed to .00, .01, etc.
If you have a folder filed with unrelated RAR files, you could do them in one swipe with this command:
cd changes the active directory to the destination for the extracted archives.
find finds all files in the ~/Downloads folder with .rar as the extension.
-exec tells Terminal to execute the following unrar command on the found files
unrar is what's being executed to perform the extraction. After it are various switches, such as the password (this will only work if there is the same password on all the files), and -y answers YES to all questions, and -adtells unrar to create a new folder for each archive. The folder will be the same as the name of the archive. The { } is used by the Find command, referring to the files just found, and ;end the command when the whole process is done.
You might like to leave unrar doing its thing if there are big archives to be extracted. When you return it is a good idea to search for any errors. With the Terminal window active (and your extraction results in there) hit Command-F to bring up the Find tool. Look for the word 'error' and see if any files generated an error.
You can get a full list of the options for unrar by simply typing unrar into Terminal, and hit the Return/Enter key.
Dealing with corrupt files
Mac Zip Command Line
If you get errors saying some of the files are corrupt, read the following two articles to determine which files are corrupt and how to potentially fix them.
Mac Os Rar Unzip Command Line Download
– Testing archives for corrupt files
Mac Unzip Program
– Repairing corrupt archive files
