So, my archive manager seems not to have preserved the directory hierarchy when extracting a tar.xz file. Now my Downloads folder is messy and full of files not in their proper places.
I want to delete those and only those files that were in the archive to start with. To do this I am trying to match the ends of each file path from the output of tar tf file.tar.xz
and delete the associated files.
For example if the input is:
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox.real
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/
tor-browser_en-US/Browser/fonts/Arimo-Bold.ttf
I want the output to be:
firefox
firefox.real
Arimo-Bold.ttf
so I can delete them.
I have been trying to accomplish this with sed 's/.*\/([^\/]+)$/\1/'
but that gives the error sed: -e expression #1, char 19: invalid reference \1 on 's' command's RHS
and I'm not sure what else to try.