> On 20010107.0504, Ethan Benson said ... > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:44:38PM +0100, M.B.Midden wrote: > > Hi > > > > if extracted GCC_2.95.2.1.tar.gz because i wanted to compile ProFTPd , and > > i want to undo it because i have no space left now in my root partition. How > > can i undo the extraction or remove the files? > > rm -rf GCC_2.95.2.1 > > or whatever directory name was created, all sanly created tarballs > extract one directory with all the files under that.
I wrote a little perl script [1] that gets the names of the files from a tarball, then removes all the files and directories found inside the tarball. It comes in real handy when a tar archive dumps into the currently directory and makes a big mess. Of course you can untar in a temp dir or use the 't' option to look inside first, but sometimes I put too much trush in where the tarballs are going to dump and get screwed. [1] http://www.cogit8.org/download/tarball-clean.txt -Rob
