NAME

       unar - extract archive file contents

SYNOPSIS

       unar [OPTION]... ARCHIVE [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Extract FILEs or the contents of ARCHIVE.

OPTIONS

       -o, -output-directory DIRECTORY
              The directory to write the contents of the archive to.  Defaults to the current directory.

       -f, -force-overwrite
              Always overwrite files when a file to be unpacked already exists on disk.  By default, the program
              asks the user if possible, otherwise skips the file.

       -r, -force-rename
              Always rename files when a file to be unpacked already exists on disk.

       -s, -force-skip
              Always skip files when a file to be unpacked already exists on disk.

       -d, -force-directory
              Always create a containing directory for the contents of the  unpacked  archive.   By  default,  a
              directory is created if there is more than one top-level file or folder.

       -D, -no-directory
              Never create a containing directory for the contents of the unpacked archive.

       -p, -password PASSWORD
              The password to use for decrypting protected archives.

       -e, -encoding ENCODING
              The  encoding  to  use  for filenames in the archive, when it is not known.  If not specified, the
              program attempts to auto-detect the encoding used.  Use "help" or "list" as the argument to give a
              listing of all supported encodings.

       -E, -password-encoding ENCODING
              The  encoding  to  use  for the password for the archive, when it is not known.  If not specified,
              then either the encoding given by the -encoding option or the auto-detected encoding is used.

       -i, -indexes
              Instead of specifying the files to list  as  filenames  or  wildcard  patterns,  specify  them  as
              indexes, as output by lsar.

       -nr, -no-recursion
              Do  not  attempt  to  extract archives contained in other archives. For instance, when unpacking a
              .tar.gz file, only unpack the .tar file and not its contents.

       -t, -copy-time
              Copy the file modification time from the archive file to  the  containing  directory,  if  one  is
              created.

       -k, -forks visible|hidden|skip
              How  to  handle  Mac  OS  resource  forks.   visible  creates AppleDouble files with the extension
              ".rsrc", hidden creates AppleDouble files with the prefix "._", and  skip  discards  all  resource
              forks.  Defaults to visible.

       -q, -quiet
              Run in quiet mode.

       -h, -help
              Display help information.

SEE ALSO

       lsar(1)