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From: Stuart Henderson <stu@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: remove x* and games from my system
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 5:52 pm

$DEITY no, look at the file list of xbase, for example.
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From: Bryan Irvine <sparctacus@...>
To: Stuart Henderson <stu@...>
Cc: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: remove x* and games from my system
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 7:27 pm

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>

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
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From: Travers Buda <traversbuda@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: remove x* and games from my system
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 6:50 pm

Err yeah, you're right--very bad idea.


./etc

./etc/X11

./etc/X11/app-defaults

./etc/X11/fs

*snip*.

/usr

./usr/X11R6

./usr/X11R6/README

./usr/X11R6/bin


The tarballs and the lists are this way.  How about just a plain

rm to get the files, then a few passes with rmdir.


--

Travers Buda
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From: Josh Grosse <josh@...>
To: <misc@...>
Subject: Re: remove x* and games from my system
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 7:06 pm

My recommendation was plain rm, without -rf.  Viz:


   # cd /

   # tar tzf /path/to/xbase43.tgz | xargs rm


I believe it to be safe.  It will leave some directories in place, but won't

remove anything it's not supposed to.


In any case, for a test system as the OP has, reinstalling is probably faster

and easier.
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