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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Archive::Tar problem Post 302374594 by amcrisan on Wednesday 25th of November 2009 03:36:01 AM
Old 11-25-2009
Archive::Tar problem

Hello,

I have a problem using Archive::Tar. it seem very trivial but i cannot get it work.

First I have a list of files I grab from a directory. Then I create a tar archive and write the files into the archive. everything works great, except that I cannot properly extract the files.

What happes in that the directory name should be

/directory_name/other

instead it tries to put the extracted files into

directory_name/other

as a result of the missing slash, I cannot untar my files. I did this on test file before the real ones. So it's not that bad.

Has anyone encountered this before? Suggestions?

I don't really know how to bash script but I think doing it in a bash script rather than perl would be better...
 

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Archive::Any(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Archive::Any(3pm)

NAME
Archive::Any - Single interface to deal with file archives. SYNOPSIS
use Archive::Any; my $archive = Archive::Any->new($archive_file); my @files = $archive->files; $archive->extract; my $type = $archive->type; $archive->is_impolite; $archive->is_naughty; DESCRIPTION
This module is a single interface for manipulating different archive formats. Tarballs, zip files, etc. new my $archive = Archive::Any->new($archive_file); my $archive = Archive::Any->new($archive_file, $type); $type is optional. It lets you force the file type in-case Archive::Any can't figure it out. extract $archive->extract; $archive->extract($directory); Extracts the files in the archive to the given $directory. If no $directory is given, it will go into the current working directory. files my @file = $archive->files; A list of files in the archive. mime_type my $mime_type = $archive->mime_type(); Returns the mime type of the archive. is_impolite my $is_impolite = $archive->is_impolite; Checks to see if this archive is going to unpack into the current directory rather than create its own. is_naughty my $is_naughty = $archive->is_naughty; Checks to see if this archive is going to unpack outside the current directory. DEPRECATED
type my $type = $archive->type; Returns the type of archive. This method is provided for backwards compatibility in the Tar and Zip plugins and will be going away soon in favor of "mime_type". PLUGINS
For detailed information on writing plugins to work with Archive::Any, please see the pod documentation for Archive::Any::Plugin. AUTHOR
Clint Moore <cmoore@cpan.org> AUTHOR EMERITUS
Michael G Schwern SEE ALSO
Archive::Any::Plugin SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Archive::Any You can also look for information at: o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/Archive-Any> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Archive-Any> o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Archive-Any> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Any> LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> perl v5.10.0 2008-06-25 Archive::Any(3pm)
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