how to get perl to untar a tar.gz to a different directory

[Jack]

Hello

I am running gunzip.exe and tar.exe for DOS...with perl commands,
Gunzip let's me unzip the tar to a different directory as follows:

system("gunzip c:\\temp2\\$filelistarray[$u]");
system("tar -xvf c:\\temp2\\$filelistarray[$u]");

BUT how do I untar AND gunzip out to a different directory ?? If I
cant, what can I do from the command line in DOS ?? WINZIP command
line add on of course doesnt support this capability..I find after
buying..
I realize this is the PERL forum but I figured since I post here a lot
the folks would know this..

Thanks,
Jack

 

[kenslaterpa]

Hello

I am running gunzip.exe and tar.exe for DOS...with perl commands,
Gunzip let's me unzip the tar to a different directory as follows:

system("gunzip c:\\temp2\\$filelistarray[$u]");
system("tar -xvf c:\\temp2\\$filelistarray[$u]");

BUT how do I untar AND gunzip out to a different directory ?? If I
cant, what can I do from the command line in DOS ?? WINZIP command
line add on of course doesnt support this capability..I find after
buying..
I realize this is the PERL forum but I figured since I post here a lot
the folks would know this..

Thanks,
Jack

Probably the simplest solution is to "chdir" to the desired directory
before
issuing the gunzip and tar commands.
By the way, you may want to look at the Perl modules that may be
available.(Archive::Tar; Compress::Zlib). I have used the tar module,
and I believe it
has some limitations with large files (may also be slower).
Ken

 

[Sherm Pendley]

I am running gunzip.exe and tar.exe for DOS...with perl commands,
Gunzip let's me unzip the tar to a different directory as follows:

system("gunzip c:\\temp2\\$filelistarray[$u]");
system("tar -xvf c:\\temp2\\$filelistarray[$u]");

BUT how do I untar AND gunzip out to a different directory ??

Does your tar support the -z option? If so, just run 'tar -xzvf blah.tgz'
to unzip & untar in one step.

I realize this is the PERL forum but I figured since I post here a lot
the folks would know this..

Please don't make a habit out of that. A lot of folks here probably *do*
know this, and HTML, and SQL, and a lot of other stuff. That doesn't make
that other stuff on-topic for this group though.

sherm--