Which distro are you running?
If you have an rpm distro, and you know the name of the file, you can find out which package supplies the file this way:
rpm -qf <path/to/file/filename>
You can also validate all of your files with:
rpm -qaV
It will indicate which files are missing.
Of course if you have a current backup, you could restore from that.
I would get the list of directories like this:
tar --list -jf sourceryvsipl++-1.3-linux-x86.tar.bz2 | sed -e 's|/[^/]*$||' | sort | uniq
or to delete them if empty:
tar --list -jf sourceryvsipl++-1.3-linux-x86.tar.bz2 | sed -e 's|/[^/]*$||' | sort | uniq | tr '\n' '\000' | xargs -0 rmdir
If it would be OK to delete all of the empty directories found:
find /usr/share/ -type d -exec rmdir '{}' +;
This command will only remove the bottom layer of (empty) directories each time, so you may need to run it more than once.
I'll do something like this one step at a time, first getting the files listed. Then I'll write a filter to remove the filename parts, then the sort and uniq parts will remove the repeats.
I always use the "rmdir" command instead of "rm -R". That way if a directory isn't empty as I thought, it won't be deleted.
Something else you can use is the find command to locate empty directories:
find /usr/local -type d -empty
If you want to cross match these directories with the contents, I find the <(command ...) form as a handy stand-in for a filename:
comm -12 <(tar --list -jf sourceryvsipl++-1.3-linux-x86.tar.bz2 | sed -e 's|/[^/]*$||' | sort | uniq) <(find /usr/local -type d -empty | sort)
I could have used
grep -f <(find /usr/local -type d -empty | sort) <(tar --list -jf sourceryvsipl++-1.3-linux-x86.tar.bz2 | sed -e 's|/[^/]*$||' | sort | uniq)
instead.
But for directories, there where not so many so simply using the list from the tarball listing would have provided the info to remove the directories manually.
