Instead, you may use some of the different archivers, which apply the RAR module as part of its primary functionality (like The Unarchiver, for instance). If you want to operate with RAR-archives using graphical interface, the standard RAR app won’t allow you this possibility. The logic and abilities of “unrar” command line utility are presented on the following screenshot: the contents of the RAR-file will be decompressed into the active folder.type the following command without colons and brackets: “unrar the archive name rar”.change the active path to the directory, which contains the proper archive file you want to decompress.in order to access the command line click “Applications” -> “Utilities” -> “Terminal”.In general, the common commands, which you can type in the terminal, are represented on the screenshot: How to extract files from the RAR archive: As a result, the contents of the source directory will be added to proper archive with defined name. In this command you should replace the source directory name and archive name parameters with the corresponding values. type the following command without brackets and colons: “rar a source directory name archive name.rar”.change the actual path to the folder, which contains the file objects (files and directories) you want to compress.if you are willing to get access to the command line, click “Applications” -> “Utilities” -> “Terminal”.paste the copied files into the “bin” folder (you will require a password in order to complete this action).from the Finder utility menu click Go Go to Folder “usr/local/bin”.copy the following files from resulted folder: unrar, rarfiles.lst, rar and default.sfx.

open and extract the downloaded TAR archive with embedded Archive Utility.

Download the latest stable build for Mac OS

visit the official WinRAR project page in the web.

Let’s start! How to install RAR for Mac OS: In this article I will describe how to use WinRAR (RAR) for Mac OS and what commands you should use in order to compress and decompress the files from the archive. Considering the fact that there is no GUI (graphical interface) for this specific version of WinRAR, the user needs some knowledge in order to know, how to use the archiver in the operational system from Apple.

In addition to builds for Windows and Linux, the WinRAR developers release and constantly update the version of the archiver for Mac OS and entitled it as simple - RAR.

Install winrar mac