in reply to Extracting a file from .gz archive

Hi ,

If you want to extract a file to a path, use the 

extract_file( $file, [$extract_path] )

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method. Also, you probably want to call the error() method after the read() and extract_file() calls.

For further info perldoc Archive::Tar ...

HTH

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