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xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
-2tar -tf <file.tar.gz> | parallel rm -
Remove annoying improperly packaged files that untar into the incorrect directory. Example, When you untar and it extracts hundreds of files into the current directory.... bleh.
-4for i in $(tar -tf <file.tar.gz>); do rm $i; done;
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tar tf <file.tar.gz> | sort -r | while read file; do if [ -d "$file" ]; then rmdir "$file"; else rm -f "$file"; fi; done--> This command will spit a few error messages if there are already files on some directories, etc., but it will work OK and safe and will erase files and directories in the right order (files first, respective directories afterwards).unzip -lt foo.zip | grep testing | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm -r