unrar or unar – go open source way
Recently there was a utility released called unar, a open source replacement for unar.
Description::
The command-line utilities lsar and unar are capable of listing and extracting
files respectively in several formats including RARv3. unar can serve as a free
and open source replacement of unrar.
To install on fedora:
yum install unar
The utility provides 2 commands called lsar and unar, which can be used to list and extract rar archives.