For greater precision, here's another way. Download the Archive::Extract tarball, then:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Extract;

my $ae = Archive::Extract->new( archive =>  '/path/to/Archive-Extract-
+0.38.tar.gz' );
my $ok  = $ae->extract( to => '/path/to/Archive-Extract' );
my $files = $ae->files;
my $outdir = $ae->extract_path;
$ae->is_tgz;
print $outdir, "\n";
chdir($outdir);

my $lines = 0;
my $filename = 'README';

die "Can't open '${filename}': $!" unless open FILE, $filename;
while (sysread FILE, my $buffer, 4096) {
               $lines += ($buffer =~ tr/\n//);
}
close FILE;
print "$lines\n";

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in thread Question on IO::UnCompress::GunZip... by biswanath_c

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