What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?

Posted by Paul D. Waite on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Paul D. Waite
Published on 2009-10-07T08:44:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 9:14 UTC
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Anything built-in? (E.g. command line tools.) Any well-regarded software?

Update: excellent suggestions, thanks guys. I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t there.

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