How do you unarchive a .rar file?

I use The Unarchiver. I have used it for years and it works great.

For mac it’s unrarx
http://www.unrarx.com/

On linux & maybe mac too:

RAR 3.60 beta 4 Copyright© 1993–2006 Alexander Roshal 25 May 2006

> rar x file.rar -pPassword

The nice thing about The Unarchiver is you use the app to associate filetypes. And after that you just double click on the RAR file and it does it’s thing. It doesn’t open up a GUI. It is just like opening a Zip file.

You mean extract it? If so, then right click on the file and select extract here or extract to a folder and specify a folder then.
You can do this with the WinRAR software.
You can get it here.

@prasad :: WinRAR is Windows only. The question was about software for OS X.

Sorry for posting wrong answer!

No problem.

be sure you know where the file is coming from. most rar’s on bittorrent are virus or trojans.

RAR is used quite a bit on Usenet, too, for videos and other large files. Its main advantage is that you can chop a large file up into a lot of pieces and reassemble them without loss of data. Lots of porn distributed that way.

@IchtheosaurusRex: Lol, it’s not porn, it’s a full length album. Teehee.

@TitsMcGhee , that’s too bad. If people only knew how much free porn they could get that way, no one would pay a dime for it again.