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I have been using UnRarX ( http://www.unrarx.com/ ) and it's free and works well, but often times I will download a rar file in the browser and click on it in the recent downloads lists which will extract it but not show it in the finder.

Ideally I'd like a small program which will extract a rar file and then show the contents / directory where it is extracted to.

I looked at the preferences for UnRarX but didn't see an option like this.

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If you like to work on the command line, the unrar utility is available via homebrew - you can install it with:

brew install --cask rar
Bill Agee
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The Unarchiver works rather well for most .rar files — it might have issues with password protected or split archives though, at least in some older versions.

It supports a large number of archive formats and is as easy to use as BOMArchiveHelper : Double click and it extracts.

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Daniel Beck
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UPDATE:

tar is built into macOS. So just

tar -xf archive.rar

Old answer:

brew install unar

if you want a CLI

https://theunarchiver.com/command-line

To use, simply

unar my_archive.rar

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The Unarchiver does that. You can also set it to open the files after extraction. Just open The Unarchiver.app after you've installed it, if you ever need to change the settings again.

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StuffIt expander works for rar and other archives and is free in the App Store.

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