in reply to Re^2: foreach loop to untar multiple files
in thread foreach loop to untar multiple files

for (@tar){
    print `tar -tvf $_`;
}

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Quite dangerous. Imaginge a file named "foo ; rm -rf * ; bar.tar.gz", injected into @tar by ls or glob. (And yes, that's a legal filename.)

Alexander

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