Thank you all, I will be doing the relevant reading (on glob) and modifying the script accordingly.

I've already copied and tried this

my $results = "~/results"; # results coming in.
for (glob "$results/*.tar.gz") {
    system "tar -tvf $_";
}

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...and it does what I want.

I've tried the following modification in my script though, and something funny happens again.

foreach (@tar) {
  `tar -tvf $results\/$_`;
}

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This gives me the following error:

tar: /home/user/results//home/user/results/results_back.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory

So the path to the tar.gz file is messed up obviously. But then my hopes build up because I see that it finds the tar.gz file and that's when I stupidly try to be "clever" by removing $results completely from the command and only keeping $_. In that case I'm just getting nothing, it fails quietly. Why is that?

In reply to Re: foreach loop to untar multiple files by fasoli
in thread foreach loop to untar multiple files by fasoli

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