regain source file from exe

hearnold has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I created a exe from a perl program that I wrote using pp -o testfile.exe testfile.pl I have since lost the source file. Is there a way that I can get access into this exe file to regain my souce file? Thanks, Howard

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Re: regain source file from exe by almut (Canon) on May 14, 2010 at 20:23 UTC
When you run the program, the files are extracted to a temporary cache directory (which is not cleaned up by default), so you should be able to just copy the source files from there (normally `/tmp/par-USERNAME/cache-XXXXXXX`).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: regain source file from exe by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2010 at 20:58 UTC
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.004/contrib/docs/who_am_i.txt http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.004/contrib/docs/where_is_it.txt `unzip -dmyparunzipped mypar.exe` [download]	[reply] [d/l]