If you untar a package, and it makes a mess of your directory because the packager didn't include the files in his tarball in a directory, you can use
% rm `tar ftz package.tar.gz`
to quickly get rid of those cluttering files.
% rm `tar ft package.tar`
does the same thing.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
linux tip on tar
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that's good advice. thanks! I'm sure I'll use it, because i made a miss already number of times with darn tar files...
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