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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Something you do not believe.
