How to undo an unrar?

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I just extracted a RAR archive that contained a lot of files in the base directory. Assuming that there were no filename collisions, what's the easiest way to remove the files just created? Parsing unrar -l seems troublesome due to filename variety.

cjm · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-05T18:35:32.483

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Use unrar lb archive.rar to get a list of bare filenames, one per line. As long as none of the filenames contained newlines, this should be trivial to parse:

unrar lb archive.rar | perl -ne 'chomp; -d ? rmdir : unlink'

edited Nov 05 '11 at 18:35

answered Nov 05 '11 at 18:30

cjm

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How to undo an unrar?

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