From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 11:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02706 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02630 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (mike.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA18337 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:03:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35BCC2C1.FF24B0F7@graphnet.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:11:13 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Graphnet, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "q's" Subject: tar problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I made a little mistake. When I download tarred files, I usually just save them to the root directory, and when I untar them, they _always_ created a top level directory and then files and subdirs in there. However, this time I untarred a file and it threw a whole bunch of stuff in my / directory which is now a big mess. I really don't want to manually go and delete all of them, is there any way to reverse what I did? They all have different creation dates, and are all owned by root. Many tia, Roman -- _________________________________________ | Roman Katsnelson | | UNIX Network Engineer | _ | Graphnet, Inc. | _ / )|_________________________________________|( \ / / | "Laws are like sausages. You have | \ \ _( (_ | more respect for them if you haven't | _) )_ (((\ \>|_/-)seen how they're made." -Bismarck(-\_|