which (just in case you're not familiar with modules and how they work) you
would have a look at by typing the following at the command line
perldoc Archive::Tar
this is a module .. there are many shipped with perl
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Meltzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tue 1 May 2001 05:05
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: tar utility for perl
>
>
>Look at Archive::Tar
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin
>
>On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:05:53PM -0400,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed forth:
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there any special tar utility in perl ? I want to tar up
>some dirs/files in
>> unix and I want to use the inbuilt tar utility inside perl
>script, if any ? If
>> so, can somebody provide some pointers to it.
>>
>> Thx
>> Kailash
>>
>>
>
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