Darwin Terminal Question
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| I've been experimenting with the "Terminal". I know it's Unix based, therefore (odd as it may seem) a Linux command sheet was helpful. But there's one thing I couldn't really get working. I've the Mac version of "RAR" but I can't get it to work. I can run it by double clicking it in the finder but since RAR is command line based (the MAC version is), I cannot give any switches and other parameters with it. Now I tried to run it from the terminal. I could get into the correct directory without problem, but when I type rar (which is really the name of the executable) it says that rar is not a valid command. Since I'm a complete idiot when it comes to UNIX commands, since before I bought a MAC I've never used UNIX before, I might be doing something wrong. Do you know how I could get this running? |
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| Is it a binary or is it source? Have you installed it? Yes Linux adopted the command line interface from previous versions of UNIX. If you want to learn UNIX I suggest that you take a look at the documentation on the FreeBSD website. Nicolas. |
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| It's installed, yes, and when I make an analysis with MacOS Finder its type is returned as: UNIX executable file. And thanks for the suggestion about that FreeBSD site ;) |
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| Every app on Mac OS X is a UNIX executable file (try opening an .app ([CTRL] + [CLICK], Show package content). I would like to try to get it work myself but when I google around for RAR I find information on the RAR compression format. Could you link me to the application? Nicolas. |
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| goto the dir with rar type ./rar for help type ./rar --help |
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| To download RAR use this link WINRAR It contains all downloadable versions of rar including the Mac version. @DannyD I'm currently using my boss' PC (which is Windows). When I get home, I'll check it out. |
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