How to extract a self extracting exe from commandline

Question

Is there a way to extract a self extracting exe from commandline in windows?

I have a self extracting exe which is of type RAR. I want to extract the contents of this RAR only with the help of windows and not using any other tools (like 7zip, Unrar etc) which helps to extract. Also, I want to do it from the command line only.

Are there any utilities in windows which I can use to extract the self extracting exe file from commandline?

Answer 1

You might be able to get the self-extacting RAR archive to do what you want with one or more of the following RAR SFX (self-extracting archive) options:

GUI self-extracting modules support following command line switches:

  -d<path>     set the destination path
  -p<pwd>      specify a password
  -s           silent mode, hide all
  -s1          same as -s
  -s2          silent mode, hide start dialog
  -sp<par>     specify parameters for setup program

I'm not sure if any of these options will suppress running a setup program that the SFX is configured to run.

Answer 2

Download UnRar for windows (freeware) from this link. It in itself is a self extracting archive, which when installed will give you the actual unrar.exe. You can then use unrar.exe to extract files from the command line.