yeah, my $uzlist=`unzip -l $filename`); should do what you want. Or godforbid you use a module or something. (Actually, I guess, that Archive::Zip has a pretty low version number so you may wanna keep shelling out for PKZip files. Looks rather complete to me, OTOH =) If you are doing GZips or Tar files you will be happier with these well kept modules tho, Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib.

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