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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
archive::any
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)