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Is there anything built-in that does this? (E.g. command line tools.) Or are there any third-party apps?

Update: I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t there.

Paul D. WaitePaul D. Waite

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The Unarchiver really does it's job well (and it's also completely free). From the site:

Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more and less obscure formats. The goal is to make The Unarchiver able to extract anything you give it. The Unarchiver uses the libxad unarchiving library to support many older, obscure formats.

alexalex

Using Homebrew, in a terminal type:

to use it just navigate to your file and type

Or list files via unrar l archive.rar and extract single file: unrar e archive.rar folder/file.exe desired_location/

Nakilonjohnnymonsterjohnnymonster

Just for completeness: Fink, MacPorts, Rudix and Homebrew provide versions of the command-line unrar.

The Rudix version is a binary, which means that you don't even need XCode or GCC to install it.

robinCTS

Nothing built-in if I'm not mistaken (no access to a Mac now).

RAR has a command line version for Mac OS X. UnRarX is a GUI program to extract RAR files.

UPDATE: UnRarX is now deprecated and it's site is down.

SnarkSnark

As far as well-regarded, RARLab's commandline for MacOSX is the best. It is not free, but there is free (-as-in-beer) official unrar tool (source code available here) that supports all RAR formats. You may be able to find a precompiled version somewhere if you don't want to compile it yourself.

There's also a free-as-in-speech unrar tool but that doesn't support the latest RAR3 format.

quack quixotequack quixote

I found The Unarchiver as mentioned to be great for about 80% of the RAR files I run into. The other almost 'perfect' RAR extractor would be RAR Expander My only complaint is it doesn't automatically quit after extraction.

Josh KJosh K

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If you buy Pathfinder, which is relatively costly ($39) but solves a whole different set of problems, it comes with .rar expansion thanks to StuffIt. This sounds like an absurd answer, however I can't use my Mac without Pathfinder anymore. So I have .rar expansion built-in :)

Dan RosenstarkDan Rosenstark

MacPar Deluxe will handle RAR files quite easily....

Unrar Tool For Mac

MacPAR deLuxe is a utility program that runs on the Apple Macintosh. It is useful to you if you download (or upload) binary files from internet newsgroups (a.k.a. “usenet”).Often, binary content comes in the form of sets of many files that together form a “rar” archive. MacPAR deLuxe assist you in combining these files after the download finishes.•It verifies that the file set is complete, and all files are undamaged. MacPAR deLuxe can recover missing information by processing so called 'par' and 'par2' files.•After the verification step, MacPAR deLuxe unpacks the data. If possible with its built-in unrar engine, or otherwise by launching the appropriate program.

The program automatically cooperates with Loek Jehee's Split & Concat.Features•Full support for the 'par 1' and 'par 2' standards.•Perform verification, recovery and automatic unrar (if applicable) by just double-clicking the '.par' or '.par2' file in the Finder.•Get a clear overview of the status of all files (see example screenshots).•Create a par or par2 volume set by dragging files to the window and simply save the document.•Open a rar archive and unpack the files inside.•Can automatically start an external program to process files in the par set.•Can open multiple windows and run multiple jobs at the same time.•Alternatively, multiple jobs can be queued and processed one after the other, to save machine overhead.•Many configurable options.•Fully compatible with 'other' par and rar utilities.•Extensive documentation included via the 'Help' menu.•Shareware: you can make make a donation if you like the program.

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The Mac really doesn't have a lot of great utilities for creating file archives, but it does have one excellent option for unarchiving: the aptly named The Unarchiver. It integrates directly with the OS X Finder and supports practically any format you can imagine.

Note: The Unarchiver isn't actually capable of creating archives, but there's really no app on the Mac that does a great job of archiving and unarchiving. You really need two separate apps for the best experience. The Unarchiver provides that experience for unarchiving, but for creating compressed files you'll need something else. We'll discuss your options first thing in the Competition section of this post.

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The Unarchiver

Platform: Mac OS X
Price: Free
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Features

• Supports practically every compressed file format you can think of. See the full list here
• You can toggle which compressed file formats The Unarchiver will decompress and which ones it will ignore.
• Integrates with the Mac OS X Finder like it was a built-in feature.
• You can choose where it extracts files, or you can have it ask you every time.
• You can choose to keep or discard the archive once it has been decompressed.

Where It Excels

The Unarchiver doesn't do much, but that's kind of where it excels. It just unarchives practically any file you can throw at it. It's about as speedy as you can expect, and you can customize which file types it handles and which ones it doesn't. Using it feels like part of the OS X Finder, which is the other thing that makes it so great. Basically, using The Unarchiver is like adding a much broader range of supported compressed file formats to your Mac.

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Where It Falls Short

The Unarchiver doesn't do much, so it's lacking in that regard. Not only would the ability to actually compress files be very welcome—especially if it was through a contextual menu item—but the lack of features and control make it difficult to deal with an imperfect (and the occasional multi-part) archive. Aside from that, there's not much to complain about. It does what it says it's going to do, and it does it well the majority of the time.

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The Competition

Before we get into the competition (of which there is very little), let's talk about apps that can compress your files. The best ones are kind of pricey. Archiver is very pretty and will cost you $19. Behind it's good looks is a pretty good feature set, offering plenty of supported formats and even the ability to password-protect an archive. Alternatively you have an app called Compress Files. It weighs in at $15, so you'll save a little money. In exchange for those savings you lose a few supported file formats. For a little more than both apps ($20), you can get BetterZIP, which offers tons of features and supported formats. If you want a free utility that only supports ZIP files, use the one built-in to the Finder already. If you want a free app that can create zip files without including the annoying .DS_STORE files that OS X loves to include in its archives, try YemuZip.

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As for the competition for The Unarchiver, there are a few apps worth noting. UnRarX is probably the best RAR decompressor on the Mac, but it suffers from a really unfriendly user interface. It's free, though, and is indispensable when dealing with RAR archives—specifically the problematic ones. For ZIP files, you can count on the Mac OS X Finder to handle those for you no problem. Most of the previously-mentioned archive creation apps can handle unarchiving files, too, but nothing is quite as good as The Unarchive so chances are you'll prefer to use two apps—one for archiving and one for unarchiving—to get the job done.

UPDATE: @dumbinacan sent me a link to Keka, which I was not aware of, and it's pretty great. It archives and unarchives, costs nothing, and has a contextual menu add-on so you can use it directly in the Finder.

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ANOTHER UPDATE: A lot of user suggestions have been coming in so I thought I'd start a list of some popular user alternatives.

• Entropy, $19, via @rainierrr
• iPack, $2, via @artiste212

Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories.

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