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How to read the rar file comment on linux command line

I have foo.rar, and I want to read the file comment

Comment example on Windows: enter image description here

How to do it in Linux command line?

Solution

  • Try:

    rar v archive.rar fname | grep Comment:

    should work for a one-liner comment. If the comment spans multiple lines you will need more sophisticated output parsing.