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lesspipe - display more with less
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support unrar-free #146

Closed KiaraGrouwstra closed 8 months ago

KiaraGrouwstra commented 8 months ago

unrar-free is an open-source alternative to the proprietary rar and unrar.they by default only export an unrar-free binary rather than aliasing this to unrar as well. it would be nice if lesspipe were to support using this package as an alternative to rar / unrar / bsdtar as well.

wofr06 commented 8 months ago

The rar format is nowadays not to often used, mostly on Windows computers and none of the installations I have access to have rar/unrar/bsdtar installed. My guess is that the display of rar formatted files within less is not widely used and for those few cases where users want it, they tend to install one of the available supported alternatives to unrar-free themselves. System wide installations of rar and friends in computer centers are uncommon. To keep the number of external programs small, that are used in lesspipe, I tend to not add unrar-free. Other opinions?