Hello Monks

I have to compress some files in unix machine. So I am getting an array
of filenames to be compressed and then writing it into
a file and using the system command to tar the list of files.
here is the code for that

use strict;
@srcfiles =("/home/Scripts/Perl/abcd.txt /home/Scripts/Perl/Test.pl /h
+ome/Scripts/Perl/checkingString.ksh");
$dir_src="/home/Scripts/Perl";
  $filename = $dir_src ."/" . "test.txt";
  open(FILE, ">>" . $filename) || die "Cannot Create File";    
   foreach $file (@srcfiles)
   {
    print "Files : $file \n";
       print FILE "$file\n";
   }
system("cat $filename");
system("tar -cvf logfiles.tar cat $filename");
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somehow the tar command is not working and files are not getting compressed.
any idea why tar is failing

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