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Is there a way to automatically normalize paths when extracting RARs?

I use `unrar` to extract rar archives sometimes:
```
UNRAR 6.24 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2023 Alexander Roshal
```

Sometimes the archive root has several files, so if I do `unrar x foo.rar` it will create a bunch of junk in my working directory. Therefore I must do `unrar x foo.rar foo/` instead.

Other times the archive root is just a directory with everything else inside. `unrar x foo.rar foo/` then creates an additional, trivial level in the dir tree, which I have to tediously remove.

I know I can just build a habit of running `unrar l foo.rar`, and based on the output decide whether to pass the directory parameter. But it's odd that in 2024 this must be a manual task. Is there some way to get `unrar` to automatically do this, or perhaps an alternative program that can extract rars?