[tlug] Re: undo a tar

[Josh Glover <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Shawn (Thu 2004-08-05 04:01:23PM +0900):

> I need to undo a tar
> I tried
> tar tfz filename.tar.gz | xargs rm
> 
> rm: cannot remove `OOo_1.1.2_LinuxIntel_install/f_0408': No such file or  
> directory

How about:

for i in `tar tfz filename.tar.gz`; do [ -e "$i" ] && rm "$i"; done

-- 
Josh Glover

Gentoo Developer (http://dev.gentoo.org/~jmglov/)
Tokyo Linux Users Group Listmaster (http://www.tlug.jp/)

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