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# RAR (package)
RAR is a package available for many Linux distributions that handles `.rar`
archives of the [RAR algorithm](/wiki/rar_(algorithm).md).
## Setup
On most distributions the functionalities for creating a `.rar` archive is
bundled in the `rar` package.
For extraction a separate package is used called `unrar`.
## Usage
### Extracting a `.rar` archive
A `.rar` archive can be extracted using the `unrar` package with the following
command.
```sh
unrar e <path to .rar file>
```

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# RAR (algorithm)
This article describes the [RAR](https://www.rarlab.com/) algorithm.
For the linux `rar` or `unrar` package see the
[rar package entry](/wiki/linux/rar_(package).md).
RAR - short for Roshal Archive - is an algorithm for compression aswell as a
format (`.rar`).
RAR archives can feature files with extensions of form `.r01`, `.r02`, etc.
These are parts of the compressed data that are created when the data is
compressed.