Hi

I am having a problem untarring a tar file. I am very new to perl. Can you please help me . I am attaching the code here. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use FindBin;

$distrib_dir = $FindBin::Bin;

print "$distrib_dir";

sub RemoveWhiteSpaces;

my ( ${birt_dir}, ${distrib_dir}, ${hostname} );

$birt_dir = "/usr/local/web/acc/WAS/install/61x/lib/app/birt";

$tar_dir="${distrib_dir}/../jclass/cfi_mss_srvcs/was6x-config";

print "$tar_dir";

$hostname=`uname -n`;

$hostname = RemoveWhiteSpaces( ${hostname} );

if (! -d ${birt_dir} ) {

       die "The target directory /usr/local/web/acc/WAS/install/61x/li
+b/app/birt does not exist, please create the directory as webspher an
+d try again";

}

if ( (${hostname} eq "agaisg66") || (${hostname} eq "svag0035") || (${
+hostname} eq "svag1103") ) {

     chdir "${birt_dir}";
      print `pwd`;
     `cp -R "${distrib_dir}"/../jclass/cfi_mss_srvcs/BIRT/* .`;
     `tar xvf ${distrib_dir}/../jclass/cfi_mss_srvcs/was6x-config/lib-
+app-CFI_Reporting.tar`;
}
else {

      print "You are trying to deploy the code in the wrong box";

###################################################

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I cant run this script and is giving the following messages:
Scalar value @_[0] better written as $_[0] at cfi_mss_srvcs_deploy.pl line 69.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at cfi_mss_srvcs_deploy.pl line 39.

Can you please help me to untar the files. Your help will be really apprecited.

In reply to Unable to untar by raghubilhana

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