How to Open, Extract and Create RAR Files in Linux

Summary

Picture this: You’ve been handed SSH access to a client’s production server. Your job is to pull logs, create RAR Files in Linux, and bring them for analysis. Simple enough, until you realize the directory you need to archive contains hundreds of files, and the upload limit on the client’s portal only accepts archives under 50 MB. You could zip everything. But the logs total 200 MB uncompressed, and you need the archive to split cleanly into parts so each chunk uploads independently. That’s ...