[unrar] Extract a password protected RAR file

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Aug 11, 2020

You can extract a RAR file that is password protected on Linux with a utility called unrar

sudo apt install unrar

# provide a password with -p
unrar e -pPASSWORD FILE.rar

To just extract a file that has no password, only pass the e flag

unrar e FILE.rar