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Python script to uncompress all the rar files in the current directory and delete the compressed .rar afterwards. It uses several system subprocesses in parallel to speed-up the process. Also valid if the files are protected with a password. Requires the rarfile (https://pypi.org/project/rarfile/) package
import glob
import multiprocessing
import os
import rarfile
NUM_PROCESSES = 5
PASSWORD = None # Set to a string if the rar files are protected with a password
def log(msg):
print(msg)
def list_files(pattern):
return glob.glob(f"./{pattern}")
def extract_rar(filename):
log(f"Extracting {filename}...")
rar = rarfile.RarFile(filename)
rar.extractall(pwd=PASSWORD)
log(f"Extraction completed!")
def delete_file(filename):
log(f"Deleting file {filename}...")
os.remove(filename)
log(f"<Not actually deleting, just testing this for the moment>")
def process_file(filename):
try:
extract_rar(filename)
delete_file(filename)
except Exception as e:
log("********************************************************")
log(f"ERROR WHEN PROCESSING {filename}")
log(e)
log("********************************************************")
rar_files = list_files('*.rar')
with multiprocessing.Pool(NUM_PROCESSES) as p:
p.map(process_file, rar_files)
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