Oh Thy Wisdom! Allow my humble question!

Hello my friends.

I´d like Perl to unzip a file, but I am not ver familiar with the syntax wich calls unix commands. And also, this one is less newbie and I think may agregate to the site, I'd like to make her wait untill the conversion is finished. Can you guys give me a hand on this?

The script: 

my $file = "test.zip";
my $path = "../uploads/46546";

... command to unix (?)

... then I read the .xls files in the directory with glob and find out
+, by elimination, the name of the file the user named his worksheet. 
+This code is ok already.

... then, I start the parsing, but this (and the code before) cannot h
+appen before the conversion is finished, got it? Otherwise Perl won´t
+ find the file. (?)

[download]
I wait for thy help.

Thanks a lot!

André

In reply to Having Unix to unzip a file and Perl to wait untill it finishes by Andre_br

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