in reply to exit value in tar command

Is there a reason why you must run the tar command inside the ksh-script? Wouldn' it be better to run the tar command directly from Perl or perhaps even use the Archive::Tar module?

Update: If all you want to do is to make a recursive copy of a directory, File::Copy::Recursive is a good alternative.

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