#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Archive::Extract; # quick and dirty hack for # https://www.perl-community.de/bat/poard/thread/17056 # first argument is archive file my $archive = shift || die "no archive specified.\n"; my $ae = Archive::Extract->new( archive => $archive ); $ae->extract(); __END__ Usage: x.pl archive extracts archive to current workdir