Re: undo extraction

2001-01-08 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Chris Gray wrote: > (-print0 is an option for find). Whoops!

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Gray
> 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 >>> direct

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-08 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
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,

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Chris Gray
> Colin Watson writes: cw> Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 arch

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Colin Watson
Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Rob Hudson
> 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 e

Re: undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread Ethan Benson
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

undo extraction

2001-01-07 Thread M.B.Midden
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? dunki