rars

A Rust implementation of RAR.

Current Status

rars covers the RAR lineage from early RE~^ archives through RAR 7, compression and decompression. It's getting faster, and kinda works.

Rust API

Use the rars crate for Rust applications and libraries. Since 0.4, the lower-level rars-format, rars-codec, rars-crypto, rars-crc32, and rars-recovery crates are folded into rars; those standalone crates ended at 0.3.x. Applications should depend on rars, and command-line installs should use rars-cli.

CLI

Inspect, test, and extract archives:

rars info archive.rar
rars test archive.rar
rars x archive.rar out/

Create archives with specific RAR generation:

rars a --format rar29 archive.rar files...
rars a --format rar50 --solid --auto-filter archive.rar files...
rars a --format rar70 --store --volume-size 10m archive.part1.rar files...

The writer supports stored and compressed members, split volumes, passwords, header encryption where implemented, comments, RARVM filters, RAR5 quick-open records, and supported recovery records. Run rars --help for more info.

By default, --memory-limit is set to 256MB and the number of --threads is your core count. This might limit compression on machines with lots of CPU cores; experiment and override as required.

Python bindings

Python bindings are published to pypi, so you can pip install rars. To build locally, it's maturin develop.

Development

Run the test suite:

cargo test --workspace --all-targets

Generate a local coverage report:

rustup component add llvm-tools-preview
./scripts/coverage.py

The script prints a line-coverage summary, saves it to target/coverage/summary.txt, and writes HTML output to target/coverage/html/library/index.html and target/coverage/html/cli/index.html.

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Credits

Author: Yehor Smoliakov

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Python >=3.10

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