WinRAR - Using rar.exe command line to extract all files in all archives in a folder then delete all the archives?

Question

I want to use rar.exe via command line to extract all files in all archives in a folder then delete all the archives automatically if they extracted successfully? I tried -df and -dr to no avail. Seems like those may only for deleting the files if you're adding them to an archive.

Right now I'm using (c#):

string.Format("e -p{0} \"{1}\" *.* \"{2}\"", pass, fi[n].FullName, fi[n].DirectoryName)

Answer 1

Seems like those may only for deleting the files if you're adding them to an archive.

Seems to be the case, yes,

$ unrar --help | grep -i unrar
UNRAR 5.00 beta 8 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2013 Alexander Roshal
Usage:     unrar command -switch1 -switchN archive files...
$ unrar --help | grep del
$ unrar --help | grep unlink
$ unrar --help | grep rem

... no mention of removing anything.

Answer 2

I guess you could do something like

• Use Process class to execute rar.exe

• Process.WaitForExit

• Validate whether the files have been extracted

  (You could just estimate size, if you want to do it quick and dirty...)

• If validation passes, delete the archive