I have an RAR archive, and I want to extract all files with a three-digit number as an extension. I tried with Winrar but it does not accept REGular EXpression:
winrar.exe e -y pinetinf pinet.[0-9*] . // pattern: does not work
winrar.exe e -y pinetinf pinet.222 . // single file name: WORK
How can I extract all the files whose names have a three-digit extension?
You can't do that using WinRAR only but you can call Powershell to help you out with the filtering.
List the files from the archive and pipe the output to a for loop to extract the needed ones in a Powershell console.
& 'UnRAR.exe' 'lb' '.\file.rar' | ForEach-Object { If($_ -like '*.[0-9][0-9][0-9]') { & 'UnRAR.exe' 'e' '.\file.rar' $_ } }
Alternatively you can create a list file and run unrar.exe only once to extract the files (maybe it's a bit faster to do it this way if you have loads of files).
& 'UnRAR.exe' 'lb' '.\file.rar' | ForEach-Object { If($_ -like '*.[0-9][0-9][0-9]') { Out-File '.\files.list' -InputObject $_ -Append } } | & 'UnRAR.exe' 'e' '.\file.rar' '-n@.\files.list'
listoption ofrar(or you can use 7-zip that can also extract files form rar) then bypass result to some filter (some external tool that will extract filenames you need without PITA) then extract files usingincludeoptions of archiver together with extract option.