Well, given 14,000 files, I'm guessing the tarball is a bit large for loading into memory as Archive::Tar is wont to do. However, please confirm that the file can reasonably fit into memory or not - you can use Archive::Tar to load your archive, and check how much memory that perl process is using, and see if it's unreasonable. If not, check that documentation to list the files, and extract each one that you want the way you want.

If it is too big for memory, your next best bet is to construct a tar command line that will do what you want. Using the -C flag may get you what you want, or at least pretty close - close enough that a bit of renaming might finish the job.

In reply to Re: UNTAR in Perl by Tanktalus
in thread UNTAR in Perl by anu7

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