On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Stuart Henderson

wrote:
> On 2008-05-27, Travers Buda  wrote:

quoted text
> > Using xargs and tar -t (as someone posted) is probably the best

> > method, short of just re-installing.

>

> $DEITY no, look at the file list of xbase, for example.

>

> It should still be safe when using vanilla 'rm'.  If you want to be triple

sure maybe something like:

*untested*

cd / ; for i in $(tar tzf /path/to/game43.tgz) ; do test -f $i && rm $i ;

done
but that's a little heavy and the xargs command should be plenty safe. :-)
-Bryan