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vincent-zurczak/winrar-pwd-checker.bat

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A MS-DOS script to try various passwords for RAR archives
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winrar-pwd-checker.bat
:: The password candidates.
:: FIXME: read them from a file.
set list="pwd1" "pwd2" "pwd3" "pwd4"
:: Assumption: there is only one RAR file in the directory.
:: FIXME: iterate over a list of files?
:: The script stops as soon as an extraction succeeds.
FOR %%A IN (%list%) DO (
echo "Testing %%A..."
"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\UnRAR" x -p%%A ./\*.rar && goto :eof
)
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