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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Kees Vonk 7249 24549 <KE...@bgtransco.co.uk> on 2000/02/29 15:59:42 UTC

backticks and mod_perl

I am currently converting a command-line script to mod_perl. 
The script contains several lines like:

   my @output = `zcat $file2|tar xf - $member`;

Re: backticks and mod_perl

Posted by Vivek Khera <kh...@kciLink.com>.

>>>>> "KV72" == Kees Vonk 7249 24549 <KE...@bgtransco.co.uk> writes:

KV72> Is there a way to get what I need without forking the whole 
KV72> lot? I had a look at Apache::Subprocess (and the 

The right thing to do is to use the approprate Perl modules to read a
compressed tar archive file directly... ;-)

See CPAN for said modules.  They do exist.