How to “undo” unzip command?

Question

I used "unzip XXX.zip" to extract a zip file, unfortunaly, i make a mistake.

Now i want to delete all the file and directorys generated by "unzip".
How can I undo it?

Answer 1

use this:

unzip -l filename |  awk 'BEGIN { OFS="" ; ORS="" } ; { for ( i=4; i<NF; i++ ) print $i " "; print $NF "\n" }' | xargs -I{} rm -v {}

Use this if you are skeptical (will prompt for confirmation)

unzip -l filename |  awk 'BEGIN { OFS="" ; ORS="" } ; { for ( i=4; i<NF; i++ ) print $i " "; print $NF "\n" }' | xargs -I{} rm -iv {} 

Answer 2

You're in a rough spot; the standard zipinfo(1) utility doesn't provide any mechanism to get unambiguous filenames out of an archive. But, you can come close:

zipinfo -1 /path/to/zip/file.zip | xargs -d '\n' rm -i

If you're sure none of the files have newlines in them, you can remove the -i option to rm(1) (which will surely get tedious).