Forgot the password for my old RAR files, Want to try the passwords/keywords which I frequently use. How can I try them at once rather than typing them every single time for every .rar file? (lemmy.ml)

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I use winrar.

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[-] MYWNcWR9Rgc31zkhTOsA@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Something like this should work on linux or mac. On windows you'll probably need to use wsl or convert it to powershell if you can't install the dependencies natively. The script requires bash, unrar, and find.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
while read -r rarfile; do
  while read -r password; do
    if unrar t -p"$password" "$rarfile" >/dev/null 2>&amp;1; then
      echo "$rarfile $password"
      break
    fi
    echo "$rarfile password not found"
  done &lt; /path/to/passwords.list
done &lt; &lt;(find /path/to/rars -type f -iname '*.rar')

this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023

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