On Sat, 16 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:

>Ah, cool.  As long as it wasn't created with "ln -s tar pkgtool" :)

It wasn't. :) Anyhow, tar can be used as a package tool -- for instance
if you want to uninstall a tar file:

rm `tar -tzvf tarfilegoeshere.tar.gz | awk '{print $6)'`

The outside quotes are backquotes, obviously.

:)

>Dave

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