Re: undo extraction

[Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org>]

Chris Gray wrote:

> I'd rather people didn't use a chainsaw where a butterknife will do
> just as well:
> 
> tar tzf $1 | xargs rm
> 
> will work for those dumbass tarballs where they don't make a new
> directory to put their files.  There might be confusion if there are
> spaces in the filenames, in which case a perl one-liner might be
> called for:
> 
> perl -e 'while (<>){chomp; printf "\"%s\"\n", $_;}'

Or just

 tar tzf -print0 file.tar.gz | xargs -0 rm

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