I am kind of curious.

If there is a way I can create a tar file from a source server then 
extract it to a local machine in 1 command in perl using system().

from a unix command line I could do something like

# ssh me@server1 "cd /directory tar cf - " | tar xfv -

My attempt in using system()

my $CMD  = "ssh me\@server1" ;
my @args = qw( "cd /directory tar cf - " | tar xfv -) ;
system("$CMD @args") == 0 or die "tar failed: $?" ;

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It only allows me to ssh over to the server1 then exit out 
without going into the diretory create a tar file and untar. 

Any thought as to how I can accomplish this?
thanks,

In reply to tar from another server by Anonymous Monk

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