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Created February 21, 2012 13:50
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recursive unrar script (with rm) that keeps directory structure intact
#!/bin/bash
for f in `find . -type f -name "*.rar"`
do
echo "Unpacking " $f " into " `dirname $f`
unrar x -y $f `dirname $f`
rm $f
done
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This works on an OSX machine with unrar binaries from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
To be used from within the directory that contains all the archives that need to be expanded.

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