How can i unrar password protected .rar file using Terminal

[AlfredoEscalona]

hello, How can i unrar password protected .rar file using Terminal like that :

./Keka --client unrar e /Users/alf/player.rar /Users/alf/Extract

the file has password, try using -P switch but dont'n work

[aonez]

Try:

./Keka --cli unrar e -p"YOURPASSWORD" /Users/alf/player.rar /Users/alf/Extract

[AlfredoEscalona]

Thanks Sir aonez

[AlfredoEscalona]

Hello mr aonez I’m sorry to bother you, but I have problems to execute ./Keka --cli unrar e -p"YOURPASSWORD" /Users/alf/player.rar /Users/alf/Extract

from my home directory, the command work fine from keka app directory, but from my home it doesn’t

Can you help me please

Alfredo

[aonez]

You can always call it like this:

/Applications/Keka.app/Contents/MacOS/Keka --cli ...

You could also export the Keka path so you can call it just like Keka --cli:

echo export PATH=/Applications/Keka.app/Contents/MacOS:\$PATH >> ~/.bashrc

[AlfredoEscalona]

Thanks mr aonez, the second solution is perfect for me, I will try it

Thank you very much

[AlfredoEscalona]

hello sr aonez, thanks for your help, i have another question, what happen if my password include special character for example if my password is "}"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK$7Nr]yWE)_"

keka fails processing command, with the following error

Total errors: 3 sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token )' sh: -c: line 0: /Applications/Keka.app/Contents/MacOS/keka --cli unrar e -p"}"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK$7Nr]yWE)_" /Users/alfredoescalona/Documents/ProbExt/Desktop.rar /Users/alfredoescalona/Documents/ProbExt/Extract'

How can I solve this problem?

thanks for your patience

[AlfredoEscalona]

mr aone have a good day, is it possible to use \ as escaping character ? to tell keka that these two strings are the same : ?

"}"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK$7Nr]yWE)_"

"}"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK$7Nr]yWE)_"

????????????

thanks for your help

[aonez]

Indeed @AlfredoEscalona, you should escape that ". This is not Keka that's failing but that line that is broken.

In that phrase you should escape " and $. You could also use simple quote ' and no escape will be needed in this case.

So:

/Applications/Keka.app/Contents/MacOS/keka --cli unrar e -p"}\"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK\$7Nr]yWE)_"

Or:

/Applications/Keka.app/Contents/MacOS/keka --cli unrar e -p'}"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK$7Nr]yWE)_'

[AlfredoEscalona]

Please i need some help

hello sir

i'm running this command

/keka --cli unrar e -p”CBGzOPuZ1C%ufu3Qx9%v?(A{MFuDlVUv8Hx” /Users/alfredoescalona/Documents/ProbExt/Desktop.rar /Users/alfredoescalona/Documents/ProbExt/Extract

and my shell return this

zsh: no matches found: -p”CBGzOPuZ1C%ufu3Qx9%v?(A{MFuDlVUv8Hx”

How can I solve this problem?

😐

El mié, 5 ene 2022 a las 9:32, aONe @.***>) escribió:

Indeed @AlfredoEscalona https://github.com/AlfredoEscalona, you should scape that ". This is not Keka that's failing but the command line that does not understand that line.

In that phrase you should scape " and $.

So:

/Applications/Keka.app/Contents/MacOS/keka --cli unrar e -p"}"Kk&i*8PH-399S{YAj{}=XJEWh:AK$7Nr]yWE)_"

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[aonez]

Use simple quote instead, you will have less trouble, as stated here:

https://github.com/aonez/Keka/issues/998#issuecomment-1005735883

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