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Other Monks have pointed out the errs in your ways, so I won't go there, I'll just expand... I would personally use Archive::Extract so your code doesn't have to shell out. Said module has been part of perl's core since pre-v5.10. Also note that I use a file glob (<*.ext>) to slurp in the file names, which retain their full path information (this eliminates another system call (ls)). Here's an example:

use warnings; use strict; use Archive::Extract; my $inputs = "~/inputs"; my $results = "/home/steve/results"; my @files = <$inputs/*.tar.gz>; for (@files){ my $ae = Archive::Extract->new(archive => $_); $ae->extract(to => $results) or die "couldn't decompress the damned $_ file!: " . $ae->error; print "decompressed $_\n"; }

For some reason, extract() wouldn't recognize the homedir shortcut, so I just entered in the full path. I'm sure it can expand it somehow, I just don't have the time to troubleshoot.


In reply to Re: foreach loop to untar multiple files by stevieb
in thread foreach loop to untar multiple files by fasoli

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