rar2tarcat(1) General Commands Manual rar2tarcat(1)
NAME
rar2tarcat - convert a RAR archive to a TAR archive and write it to
stdout
SYNOPSIS
rar2tarcat [-h(elp)] rarfile
DESCRIPTION
rar2tarcat converts a single RAR archive to TAR archive format.
Notably, it does so without extracting the rarfile contents to disk.
OPTIONS
-h Print help and quit.
EXAMPLES
Convert a rarfile to a tar file directly:
rar2tarcat file01.rar > file01.tar
Convert a rarfile to a tar file while compressing it:
rar2tarcat file01.rar | gzip -c -9 > file01.tar.gz
rar2tarcat file01.rar | xz -c > file01.tar.xz
CAVEATS
The rar2tarcat utility automatically converts between RAR timestamps
(which are based on local time) and TAR timestamps (which are based on
UTC time) so that files extracted from the newly-created TAR archive
will still bear the correct timestamp. However, if the conversion is
performed on a machine running under a different timezone than where
the rarfile was created, the converted timestamps may be erroneous. If
this causes problems, the local timezone should be temporarily be set
to match that where the original rarfile was created to resolve the
issue.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2015 by D. Gloger. Modifications copyright (C) 2025 by
Brian Lindholm. This program is free software; you can use it,
redistribute it, and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
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