13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
5:58 p.m.
On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
Now, a major annoyance I find are tarballs that vomit
files in the current
directory instead of a subdirectory based off the name of the tar file
(usually foobar.tar will, when extracted, create a directory called foobar
that contains the files; but that's a *convention* not mandatory).
YES. I believe they're properly called "tarbombs", which is particularly
apt. A "tar tf <foo.tar> | xargs rm -rf" will clean it up, assuming the
contents of the archive didn't blow away anything that was already there.
- Dave