perl: how to suppress system()'s output or quiet down `tar`

[LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu>]

Hi!

From a perl script I call 'tar' with system(). But with every system() 
call I get the output from tar to my console: "tar: Removing leading / 
from absolute path names in the archive" and it messes up my perl 
script's output. I understand why tar is saying this, but I can not use 
the -P switch, because I need tar to remove the leading '/'s, and there 
is no "quiet" switch to tar. Is there a solution? Can I quiet down tar, 
or suppress system()'s output?

Thanks!

Daniel

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LeVA