>>>>> Brian Frederick Kimball writes:
bfk> 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", $_;}'
bfk> Or just
bfk> tar tzf -print0 file.tar.gz | xargs -0 rm
-print0: Cannot open: No such file or directory
I think what you meant is --null, but that has a slightly different
meaning. So I don't think there's a way to do what you suggested.
(-print0 is an option for find).
Cheers,
Chris
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