script that will automatically extract

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

how do i write a script that will automatically extract rar files after the download in a particular folder?

can you give me an idea please? :smiley: or is there an existing script for this?

2

My suggestion is:

1.- Monitor the download process,
2.- If is not present, I supose it has finished
3.- Then I try to unrar the file

1.-

while [ 1 ] ; do
  ps | grep "download_process" || break
  sleep 60
done

2 exists only as a condition
3 depend on your tools, maybe something like gunzip downloadedFile.gz, but rar is not familiar to me on unix systems

3

Is it enough?

cd /source_rar && wget http://......file.rar && cd /target && unrar -e /source_rar/file.rar

It's means:
if successful execute the next command

4

what does

sleep 60

mean?

i'd also like to extract file such as 7z and zip.

say, if zip, rar and 7z exist, then eztract to mkdir %d or something..can you help me with this please.