Remotely run programs (unrar) on remote files? Any simple way?

LeperousDust

LeperousDust

LeperousDust

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I've got my downloads set on my WHS box and everything is great and gets auto unrared and left there for me to pick up as and when needed on my shares and move around a bit. The odd few things come rar'ed up in rar's themselves. Which means i still end up with these bloomin' rars dotted about. Now i can unrar them from my computer over the network but thats not particularly efficient. I can also unrar them locally by RDPing in and doing it like i would normally. This also isn't efficient. So what do i do to remotely unrar a file locally on a network share i can see on my laptop?
I was thinking i can SSH in and run a dos command but still seems a little excessive don't you think? never mind the horrendous names some things are called typing some things in would be a nightmare. Hoping theres some kind of solution out there :)
 
Its not ideally what i wanted. Everything auto unpacks for me already, having two programs fight over that sounds like hassle. Plus that's sledgehammer for a nut scenario as its only the odd thing i download is rar'ed in a rar. I guess for now i'll just stick to RDPing occasionally or doing it over the network, it gets the job done, just not as well as i'd like :p
 
Not particulary, how could that annoy me? your dense nature is irritating thats about it, but you're just wasting my time, i thought someone might have had a solution instead :)
 
Cheers mate, some nice little tidbit there. I would disable the other one but its built in to SABnzbd, and its very very reliable and interfaces well with the program, and i can check on it from its web interface. Whereas relying on autoupack i'd be left in the dark as to why something might not have yet unpacked and have to go RDPing or something equally annoying.

Never thought about trying wildcards actually, i'm not even sure if cmd accepts them (should do though), makes sense anyway! WinRAR does have a command line and so does 7zip so i'll look at SSHing and doing it that way.

Tabcomplete wont work because i'm not running a *nix box.

Cheers for that :)
 
Yeah that crossed my mind. But by the time i know its got some strange internal rar structure it's finished and i can't have a script run remotely on it. Although i could make a default one that loops looking for rar's and unrars, not sure its worth me farting around trying to work that out though :p I'm coping for now, i just hoped there was a way i could invoke it my a right click from another remote PC etc...
 
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