I need to tar up a group of data files. I've been trying to write my apps to be portable between windows and UNIX, so I was using Archive::Tar::Streamed as opposed to calling tar through a system call.

It all seems to be working fine, however, when I test my tar file by listing or extracting the contents, althought the contents all seem to be good, I'm getting an "Unexpected end-of-file" error on UNIX

Am I not updating or closing the tar file properly?

This is not my exact code, but a snipet that produces the same result:

#! /bin/perl

use Archive::Tar::Streamed;

my $fh;
open $fh, ">test.tar";
binmode $fh;

my $tar = Archive::Tar::Streamed->new($fh) or die "Could not open tar 
+file";
$tar->add(@ARGV);

$fh->close;

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When I run it I get:

delli28@apsa9012:/u/delli28> test.pl test.pl
delli28@apsa9012:/u/delli28> tar tf test.tar
test.pl
tar: Unexpected end-of-file while reading from the storage media.

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Or maybe someone has an entirely better solution, but I will be working with very large files...

In reply to Archive::Tar::Streamed Unexpected end-of-file by DanEllison

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