Hello wise monks,

I have been trying to write a foreach loop in order to untar multiple tar.gz files that I (will) have in a directory. The script I've written is 

#/bin/perl/

use strict;
use warnings;

# First, setting the directories we're interested in.

my $inputs = "~/inputs"; # inputs we upload to the server.
my $results = "~/results"; # results coming in.
my @array; # tarballs of the incoming results.

chomp (@array = system "ls $results\/*.tar.gz"); # putting all tar fil
+es in an array

# tar can't accept multiple tar.gz files as input 
# arguments after the tarball filename are expected to be files to unt
+ar from the tarball.

foreach (@array) {
  system "tar -tvf $results\/$_";
}

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And this is the output I'm getting:

/home/user/results/results_back.tar.gz  (my comment -> that's the ls c
+ommand output, so it is finding one tar.gz file, I only have one for 
+now)
tar: 0: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

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So there seems to be something wrong but I can't find what. As you can see, for now I'm only listing the tar.gz contents, if I get it working I'll add the real extract command.

Have I made a very obvious mistake? It would be great if you could give me a hint about what might be happening.

Thank you! :) I'd really appreciate any help :)

In reply to foreach loop to untar multiple files by fasoli

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