On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:22:13AM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> >
> > > tar tvfz src.tar.gz | xargs rm -f
> >
> > But might throw away some files that belong in /usr/bin....
>
> Hmmm.. how is that? I mean, /usr/bin has no further
> directories, while everything but "Makefile" is a directory in
> the src.tar.gz file.. Maybe i'm missing something..
I did not actually check if it would throw away files in this specific
case, but the general pattern of your solution is dangarous.
-Otto
