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txt files in otherfolder and its subfolders rar a yourfilesĬreates archive yourfiles.rar and compresses all files in the current folder, but doesn’t include subfolders (note lack of extension WinRAR will use the default extension. txt files in the current folder and its subfolders rar a -r C:\yourfolder\yourfiles.rar C:\otherfolder\*.txtĬreates archive yourfiles.rar in C:\yourfolder and compresses all. Rar a -r C:\yourfolder\yourfiles.rar *.txtĬreates archive yourfiles.rar in C:\yourfolder and compresses all. Examples to compress a folder: rar a -r yourfiles.rar *.txtĬreates archive yourfiles.rar and compresses all. For more detailed information, open the rar.txt file in the WinRAR directory which contains the RAR console version user’s manual. To get a listing of the options for the rar and unrar commands, open a command window, cd to the WinRAR directory, and type rar or unrar and then press enter (rar /? or rar help may also be used, use rar >rar_cmds.txt or unrar >unrar_cmds.txt to print the command options to a file).

The syntax for using the WinRAR executables is: RAR or UNRAR. Using WinRAR’s command-line tools is similar to those for IZArc and 7-Zip. Although WinRAR is shareware, it can be used on a trial basis for 40 days. Both are located in the “C:\Program Files\WinRAR” folder in the installable version. It includes two command-line tools, rar.exe and unrar.exe, where rar.exe compresses and unrar.exe uncompresses files.

WinRAR is a popular and powerful archive manager that can be used from the command-line or with scripting languages such as batch files. The information in this guide was tested on a Windows PC running Vista. This guide is an extension of a previous post, Automate Zipping Tasks using the Command-line Interface that explained the use of the command-line tools for two free compression utilities, IZArc and 7-Zip. This guide describes the use of the WinRAR command-line tools (v5.01) for compressing and uncompressing files in a directory and their use in batch files (for IZArc and 7-zip, see this post).