Archive::Libarchive provides a Perl object-oriented interface to the libarchive library. The libarchive library is the API used to implemnt bsdtar, the default tar implementation on a number of operating systems, including FreeBSD, macOS and Windows. It can also be installed on most Linux distributions. But wait, there is more, libarchive supports a number of formats, compressors and filters transparently, so it can be a useful when used as a universal archiver/extractor.