Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:07:26 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@widomaker.com> To: "'Roman Katsnelson'" <romank@graphnet.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tar problem Message-ID: <01BDB978.B036FE10@SERV_BDC>
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Roman Katsnelson[SMTP:romank@graphnet.com] inquires: >I made a little mistake. When I download tarred files, I usually just >save them to the root directory, and when I untar them, they _always_ >created a top level directory and then files and subdirs in there. > >However, this time I untarred a file and it threw a whole bunch of stuff >in my / directory which is now a big mess. I really don't want to >manually go and delete all of them, is there any way to reverse what I >did? Well, I'm no Unix whiz but this has worked for me (any overrulling ideas from the list welcome): In the directory that was clobbered with the files, run: #rm -rf `tar tf tarfile` ` <--- is the character next to the '1' , unshifted ~ on many keyboards. That should get a list of files in the tarfile, and remove them, along with directories, without asking any questions. I'v gotten in the habit of looking at what's *in* tar files before extracting, and using the 'z' option for .tar.gz files as well. Chuck FreeBSD-2.2.6 cswiger@widomaker.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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