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

I will try to explain it as simple as possible

I have Windows server and a Unix client. All it does is that the Unix client sends 2 files to Windows and the server process the info and generates 10 files. Those 10 files gets "tar"ed and sent back to Unix.

Now my problem is this: Once unix receives the Tar file it cannot un"tar" it properly, out of the 10 files probably the first file can be recovered. What is going on? Of course all of this is done with Perl code

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Re: Quick question on Tar and Untaring Files
by PyrexKidd (Monk) on Jul 18, 2011 at 21:39 UTC

    Hello,
    I suspect you are not using the correct tar/untar flags.
    Can you perform the process manually? How are you taring/untaring the files?
    i.e.: 

    tar czf file.tar.gz dir/
tar xzf file.tar.gz

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  my $tar = Archive::Tar->new;
  $tar->add_files("$f1");
  $tar->add_files("$f2");
  $tar->write("final.tar");

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