On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:00:18AM +0100, unixadmin99 wrote: > > Oops! > > Accidently emptied half the contents of src.tar.gz into /usr/bin while > > undergoing an install under the intoxication of sleep. > > What's the most efficient way of rectifying this? > > Something like.. > > tar tvfz src.tar.gz | xargs rm -f > > should work...
But might throw away some files that belong in /usr/bin....
-Otto
