Illuminatus, I WAS initially using Archive::Extract, but had to switch for a couple of reasons. I am on windows (because I can't convince the unix admin to allow me to store these files on the server) and since there is no bin/tar for windows, I have to use perl to do the unzipping which requires system memory. So much memory is required, that I get an "out of memory" error when extracting.
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I've been using Cygwin for little things like this for years. Tar, gzip, zip, bzip2, etc., all work as expected from a normal Shell window (aka DOS window). If you have gzip or other compression installed, tar will support it natively, saving you some piping.
If you want to avoid Cygwin and/or get as much performance as possible, you can also get non-Cygwin, native ports of common linux/unix utilities here.
--marmot
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