Comprimir , descomprimir .RAR en GNU/linux

Sencillo, y a peticion de josé.

Lo primero instalaremos rar, los pasos son los siguentes:

debian>apt-get update

debian>apt-get install rar

Una vez que lo hemos instalado del repositorio , veremos la ayuda en el bien ponderado “man”, escribiendo en la shell : man rar.

RAR(1)                           RAR archiver                           RAR(1)

NAME
rar – archive files with compression

SYNOPSIS
rar <command> [-<switch 1> -<switch N>] archive [files...]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the rar archiver.
This  manual  page  was  written  for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Commands and options described here are as of rar 3.0b5.

rar and unrar are programs for manipulation with .rar archives.

OPTIONS
After the program name comes a command and then optional switches  with
dashes before them.
A  summary  of commands is included below.  For a complete description,
run rar without options.

a      Add files to archive.

c      Add archive comment. Comment length is limited to 62000 bytes.

cf     Add files comment. File comments are displayed when the ’v’ com‐
mand is given. File comment length is limited to 32767 bytes.

cw     Write archive comment to a specified file.

d      Delete files from archive.

e      Extract  files  to current directory. Does not create any subdi‐
rectories.

f      Freshen files in archive. Updates those files changed since they
were packed to the archive. This command will not add new to the
archive.

k      Lock archive. Any command which intend  to  change  the  archive
will be ignored.

de esta manera vemos las opciones que tiene este programa, pues bien descomprimamos un archivo:

felipe@felipe-desktop:~/Escritorio$ rar e llenado_orbitales.swf.rar

RAR 3.71   Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal   20 Sep 2007
Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help

Extracting from llenado_orbitales.swf.rar

llenado_orbitales.swf already exists. Overwrite it ?
[Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, n[E]ver, [R]ename, [Q]uit Y

Extracting  llenado_orbitales.swf                                     OK
All OK