Unrar all files from a folder using Windows terminal

Question

I am looking for a command in the windows terminal that allows me to unrar all the files from a folder. Precisely I want to replicate this bash command on windows

find . -name "*.rar" -exec unrar x -o+ {} \;

thank u

Answer 1

I would prefer RS Finance's answer: a power shell provides an easy and clean solution. However, if that's not an option, you may achieve the same with command prompt like this (first cd to the correct directory),

for %i in (*.rar) do "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" e "%i"

I use 7z as my zip program. You just have to replace the path to whatever you use. If you have the path stored in you environment path, "7z.exe" without the absolute path may be enough.

Note that,

• e is an argument specifically for 7zip, meaning extract.
• if you intend to do this in a batch script (file), you'll need double "%"-signs. See this one: Iterate all files in a directory using a 'for' loop