Re: [tlug] Re: undo a tar

[Josh Glover <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Shawn (Thu 2004-08-05 11:08:18PM +0900):

> I need to strip "OOo_1.1.2_LinuxIntel_install/" from each arg before it 
> gets passed to rm
> 
> for i in `tar tfz ~/downloads/OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz`; do echo 
> "$i"|cut -c 30-;done
> will print out the files I want to rm such as
> f_0430
> f_0431
> f_0432
> 
> but
> for i in `tar tfz ~/downloads/OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz`; do rm 
> "$i"|cut -c 30-;done
> gives me
> rm: cannot remove `OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install/f_0432': No such file or 
> directory

A-ha. Sorry, I was not paying attention. You could always:

tar tzf ~/downloads/OOo_1.1.1_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz | \
perl -ne '/^[^\/]+\/(.+)$/ and unlink $1'

-- 
Josh Glover

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

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