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Compressing a directory with rar on Linux

to shell cmd command line unix linux commandline terminal recursive base directory rar rarring archive archiving compress compression compressing based recursion by chrelad on Dec 12, 2007
I've been struggling to get this to work for so long that when I finally got it going I had to throw it up here so I wouldn't lose it.
rar a -m5 -R output.rar /etc/

This will create a max compression (not taking into account dictionary sizes and the like) archive of the entire etc directory.
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