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";
}