Greetings mrbbq,

This is untested, and I only just now tossed it together, but is this what you're asking for?

use Archive::Tar;
my $tar = Archive::Tar->new;
chdir '/tmp' or die $!;
$tar->read('anything.tgz', 1, { 'extract' => 1 } );
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I'd rather not have to chdir; instead, I'd like to tell Archive::Tar where to extract the files. How to do that is probably in the POD somewhere.