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Figaro
Asked: 2020-07-02 21:06:37 +0800 CST

7zip extractor flooded my home folder, any way to undo it?

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I recently installed 7zip on my PC to extract some .7z files I had in my Download Folder. However, when I entered:

7z e 'File location here'

The terminal result:

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All the 1700 files were extracted successfully, but also went to the /home folder flooding it.

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I desperately start deleting some of the files and folders, but it's imposible to manually remove all of them.

Also tried sorting by date, but the files have dates from 2014 to 2020 inherited by the original .7z file.

Is there a method to undo what I did without damaging any of the files I already had before the extraction?

gnome home-directory 18.04 7zip

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Get the list of extracted files, then script a deletion work.

    List files in archive

    7z l archive_file.ext
# l  is for 'List'

    The output of this command looks like the code bellow:
    We want the list of files with path

    user@host:~$ 7z l '$User/RC_Adapter_Arduino.zip' 

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 560  @ 2.67GHz (20655),ASM,AES-NI)

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 8693524 bytes (8490 KiB)          

Listing archive: /home/MyUser/RC_Adapter_Arduino.zip

--
Path = /home/MyUser/RC_Adapter_Arduino.zip
Type = zip
Physical Size = 8693524

   Date      Time    Attr         Size   Compressed  Name
------------------- ----- ------------ ------------  ------------------------
2019-09-06 08:58:18 D....            0            0  Drivers - Arduino
2019-09-06 09:06:16 D....            0            0  Drivers - Arduino/drivers
2019-09-06 09:07:30 .....         9368         6268  Drivers - Arduino/drivers/AdafruitCircuitPlayground.cat
2019-09-06 09:07:30 .....         3719         1162  Drivers - Arduino/drivers/AdafruitCircuitPlayground.inf
2019-09-06 09:06:46 D....            0            0  Drivers - Arduino/drivers/CP210x_6.7
2019-09-06 09:06:24 D....            0            0  Drivers - Arduino/drivers/CP210x_6.7.4

    Get the last column by deleting the 53 first characters, adapt it to your output if needed
    This could also be achieved with awk and dealing with spaces

    7z l myarchive.file | sed  's/\(.\{53\}\)//'

    Optionnal removing heading and tailing lines

    7z l myarchive.file tail -n +17 | head -n -2 | sed  's/\(.\{53\}\)//'

    Save the files list to a text file
    You will be able to script the deletion of the unwanted files
    Adapt 17 heading and 2 tailing values to your output if needed

    7z l myarchive.file tail -n +17 | head -n -2 | sed  's/\(.\{53\}\)//' > $USER/theMess.txt
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