auto-unrar

Smart Perl script (for Linux) to auto unrar/extract a directory structure containing many RAR archives.

Features

• extract multipart archives
• handle all three multipart archives naming conventions ** .part1.rar, .part2.rar, ... ** .rar, .r00, .r01, ... ** .001, .002, ...
• duplicate directory structure tree
• respect basedir_deep configuration option
• see docs/test-data/
• move/rename normal files (no rar archives)
• check minimum free space on device
• can delete archives if extracted ok
• save status to file
• so already extracted archives aren't extracted again
• trying extract again only if some change found
• keypress features during run ( p...pause, c...continue, q...quit )
• smart error handling
• maintain undo actions list for recovery to initial state
• sleep (increment time to sleep) and try again
• revert to initial state if error found during extraction of directory
• can be configured to run periodically (e.g. from cron) to incrementally extract RAR archives
• check if there is any change inside directory
• support for rsync integration
• generate rsync exclude list (basedir_deep configuration option is used)
• check time of last modification of base directories (recursively)
• respect minimum time since last change (let rsync finish his job)
• preserve mtime of files and directories where possible
• has own test suite
• tested on many big archives
• debug and verbose output support

Tested on Linux only. Also see ToDo list inside source code bin/auto-unrar.pl.

Install

For Debian see docs/debian-howto.md. For Fedora see docs/fedora-howto.md.

cd ~/ git clone git://github.com/mj41/auto-unrar.git auto-unrar cd auto-unrar mkdir -p temp conf-my db cp conf/videos-example.pl conf-my/videos.pl vim conf-my/videos.pl cpanm Term::ReadKey cpanm Filesys::Df

Run

cd ~/auto-unrar perl bin/auto-unrar.pl --conf conf-my/videos.pl --cmd unrar

Press:

• P ... pause,
• C .. continue,
• Q .. quit.

Future development and donations

Report bug or feature request on github.com/mj41/auto-unrar/issues.

Donation

Feel free to donate some money to support development on pledgie.com/campaigns/9585. Thank you.