NAME Archive::Peek::Libarchive - Peek into archives without extracting them (using libarchive) SYNOPSIS use Archive::Peek::External; my $peek = Archive::Peek::External->new( filename => 'archive.tgz' ); my @files = $peek->files(); my $contents = $peek->file('README.txt') DESCRIPTION This module lets you peek into archives without extracting them. This is a wrapper to the libarchive C libary (http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/), which you must have installed (libarchive-dev package for Debian/Ubuntu). It supports many different archive formats and compression algorithms and is fast. METHODS new The constructor takes the filename of the archive to peek into: my $peek = Archive::Peek::External->new( filename => 'archive.tgz' ); files Returns the files in the archive: my @files = $peek->files(); file Returns the contents of a file in the archive: my $contents = $peek->file('README.txt') AUTHOR Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2011, Leon Brocard. LICENSE This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.