How to extract rar files inside google colab

Question

I have a dataset in google drive which I want to use in google colab.But I can't unrar the rar files by any means.So far I have tried installing python libraries and also ubuntu packages like "unrar ,rar ,unrar-free ,unar ,unp" and I just can't open the damn file.Here are the results of each command:

!rar x data.rar

RAR 5.40   Copyright (c) 1993-2016 Alexander Roshal   15 Aug 2016
Trial version             Type RAR -? for help


Extracting from meta-data.rar

Cannot create meta-data/sample_submission.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/test.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/train.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create directory meta-data
Input/output error
Total errors: 4

!unrar data.rar

UNRAR 5.50 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2017 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from meta-data.rar

Cannot create meta-data/sample_submission.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/test.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/train.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create directory meta-data
Input/output error
Total errors: 4

!unp meta-data.rar

RAR 5.40   Copyright (c) 1993-2016 Alexander Roshal   15 Aug 2016
Trial version             Type RAR -? for help


Extracting from meta-data.rar

Cannot create meta-data/sample_submission.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/test.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/train.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create directory meta-data
Input/output error
Total errors: 4

UNRAR 5.50 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2017 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from meta-data.rar

Cannot create meta-data/sample_submission.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/test.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create meta-data/train.csv
No such file or directory
Cannot create directory meta-data
Input/output error
Total errors: 4
Can't exec "file": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/unp line 419.
Failed to detect file type of meta-data.rar.
WARNING: There were errors while processing files!

None of the others a re working either so any ideas are welcomed.

Answer 1

The following code snippet worked for me:

get_ipython().system_raw("unrar x file_name")