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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
 
> David Moberg wrote:
> >
> > You can automatically remove packages with this command sequence:
> > cd /
> > rm -f `tar -ztf /full/path/to/package.tgz`
> > rmdir `tar -ztf /full/path/to/package.tgz`
> 
> Couple of problems with those.  You need the -v parameter
> to get the filelist.

Under the list of options in my Busybox tar (tar --help) I see:

t       list

In GNU tar, I see:

  -t, --list              list the contents of an archive

If I run the following command to create a tarball:

tar -zcf new.tar.gz file1 file2 file3 directory1

(directory1 being an empty directory) and then run

tar -ztf new.tar.gz

I get the following as output:

file1
file2
file3
directory1/

Why exactly is the v option necessary?

> You need to remove the data that preceeds the filename
> (otherwise rm and rmdir will barf).

I only get that data when I add the v option, which doesn't
seem necessary.

> The rmdir will only delete the bottom directory of each
> subtree (you can get around this by running it again and
> again).

Woops, I missed that one. Running it again and again would be
easier with a shell script, no?

I'm a little confused about these tar options, could you please
clarify how they work?

Thanks,
David
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