I have been working on something that is going to be untarring a file and then taking the contents of the untarred file and copying the files over to another location on the harddisk. However I think I am running into a problem in beteen the untar process and the copy process.

The file untars correctly but when I try to copy it over I get an error saying the file does not exist. Of course I then check the untarred directory and there the files are. I have checked file paths and they are correct, file permissions are correct, and I have even changed directory to the untarred directory and tried that. Still no go.

What I think may be happening is that the File::Copy is trying to copy over the file before it actually shows up from the untar process. Is there anyway I can prove this is what is happening? Also more importantly if this is the case how can I slow the script down and wait for it to show up before trying to copy it without implementing some kind of endless loop checking for it?


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In reply to Archive::Tar then File::Copy? by Elijah

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