Hello there,

i have made up a servicemenu to recursively extract archives. It looks like this now:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=unrar-rekursiv;

[Desktop Action unrar-rekursiv]
Name=Extract rar archives recursively
Name[de]=Rar Dateien rekursiv entpacken
Icon=utilities-file-archiver
Exec=find %u -name '*.rar' -execdir nice -n20 ark --batch '{}' ';'

For now, this is only for my special purpose, to ease extraction of several .RAR archives (as i don't explicitly use unrar any more, it can be used for any archive type that Ark supports) in subdirectories.

As i'm not a shell god, i don't know how to process several found archives one-by-one, currently they are processed in parallel, which is not that good. Can anybody give me a hint how to do this?

Abstracted usage scenario:

Folder/
./1/somefile.rar
./2/someotherfile.rar
./3/evenanotherfile.rar

Right-click on Folder, select "Extract rar archives recursively" and all found files are extracted in parallel, which is unwanted.

BTW: If anyone want's to use this, feel free to do so. For now i don't intend to open enhancement request on BKO, as the usage is very special. What do you think about this?

Maybe the following would work?

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arkfilesopen = $(find %u -name '*.rar') ark --batch $arkfilesopen;

Big up to bcooksley, working great now.
But the question remains: What do you think, is this worth posting as an enhancement request to be integrated into Ark?

EDIT: Seems to work only one time. Next time it tells me that "program "arkfilesopen" can't be found" even when unsetting arkfilesopen before. Any idea?

Try this instead, which should be more runtime.

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ark --batch $(find %u -name '*.rar')

This extracts the files to ~/Documents. Will have to play around with Ark command line options a bit. But Thanks for your help.