---
name: "Archive::Any::Lite"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libarchive-any-lite-perl"
version: "0.11-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Archive::Any::Lite"
---

# Archive::Any::Lite(3pm)

simple CPAN package extractor

## NAME

Archive::Any::Lite - simple CPAN package extractor

## SYNOPSIS

```
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use Archive::Any::Lite;
    local $Archive::Any::Lite::IGNORE_SYMLINK = 1; # for safety
    my $tarball = 'foo.tar.gz';
    my $archive = Archive::Any::Lite->new($tarball);
    $archive->extract('into/some/directory/');
```

## DESCRIPTION

This is a fork of Archive::Any by Michael Schwern and Clint Moore. The main difference is this works properly even when you **fork()**, and may require less memory to extract a tarball. On the other hand, this isn't pluggable (this only supports file formats used in the CPAN toolchains), and this doesn't check mime types (at least as of this writing).

## METHODS

### new

```
  my $archive = Archive::Any::Lite->new($archive_file);
  my $archive = Archive::Any::Lite->new($archive_file, {tar_filter => qr/foo/});
```

Creates an object. You can pass an optional hash reference for finer control.

### extract

```
  $archive->extract;
  $archive->extract($directory);
  $archive->extract($directory, {tar_filter => qr/foo/});
```

Extracts the files in the archive to the given `$directory`. If no `$directory` is given, it will go into the current working directory.

You can pass an optional hash reference for finer control. If passed, options passed in `"new"` will be ignored.

### files

```
  my @file = $archive->files;
```

A list of files in the archive.

### is\_impolite

```
  my $is_impolite = $archive->is_impolite;
```

Checks to see if this archive is going to unpack into the current directory rather than create its own.

### is\_naughty

```
  my $is_naughty = $archive->is_naughty;
```

Checks to see if this archive is going to unpack outside the current directory.

### type

Deprecated. For backward compatibility only.

## GLOBAL VARIABLE

### $IGNORE\_SYMLINK

If set to true, symlinks (and hardlinks for tarball) will be ignored.

## SEE ALSO

Archive::Any, Archive::Tar::Streamed

## AUTHOR

Archive::Any is written by Michael G Schwern and Clint Moore.

Kenichi Ishigaki, \<ishigaki@cpan.org\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Kenichi Ishigaki.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.