in reply to Tar a files

  1. Your code doesn't attempt to tar, it attempts to untar.
  2. Since you decided to shell out for 'find' and 'tar', instead of doing it from within Perl, why then don't you simple use find .... -exec?
  3. Shouldn't it be `find ... -name '*.tar'`?
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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>