Hi, I am a newbee in Perl. I am reading a directory having some archive files and uncompressing the archive files one by one. Everything seems well however the files are getting uncompressed in the folder which has the main perl code module which is running the sub modules. I want the archive to be generated in the folder I specify. This is my code: sub ExtractFile { #Read the folder which was copied in the output path recursively and extract if any file is compressed my $dirpath = $_[0]; opendir(D, "$dirpath") || die "Can't open dir $dirpath: $!\n"; my @list = readdir(D); closedir(D); foreach my $f (@list) { print " \$f = $f"; if(-f $dirpath."/$f") { #print " File in directory $dirpath \n ";#is \$f = $f\n"; my($file_name, $file_dirname,$filetype)= fileparse($f,qr{\..*}); #print " \nThe file extension is $filetype"; #print " \nThe file name is is $file_name"; # If compressed file then extract the file if($filetype eq ".tar" or $filetype eq ".tzr.gz") { my $arch_file = $dirpath."/$f"; print "\n file to be extracted is $arch_file"; my $tar = Archive::Tar->new($arch_file); #$tar->extract() or die ("Cannot extract file $arch_file"); #mkdir($dirpath."/$file_name"); $tar->extract_file($arch_file,$dirpath."/$file_name" ) or die ("Cannot extract file $arch_file"); } } if(-d $dirpath."/$f") { if($f eq "." or $f eq "..") { next; } print " Directory\n";# is $f"; ExtractFile($dirpath."/$f"); } } } The method ExtractFile is called recursively to loop all the archives. When using $tar-extract() it uncompresses in the folder which calls this metohd. when I use $tar-extract_file($arch_file,$dirpath."/$file_name" ) I get an error : No such file in archive: '/home/fsang/dante/workspace/output/s.tar' at /home/fsang/dante/lib/Extraction.pm line 80 Please help I have checked that path and input output there is no issue with it. Seems some usage problem I am not aware of for $tar-extract_file(). Many thanks for anyone resolving this issue. Regards, Sakshi