Re: Archive::Tar- how do I tar a whole directory tree

[Masem]

The last argument of create_archive is a list. You can generate a list of files that would be in a directory using glob. So you can call this as :

Archive::Tar->create_archive( "my.tar.gz", 9, glob "/this/*", glob "/t
+hat/*" );

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[foogod]

TIMTOWTDI

A simple way is the command line code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
my $destination = "Archive_filename_to_be_created";
my $source      = "/home/users/billyjo/stuff_to_backup/";
my $cmd         = `tar -cpf $destination $source`;
####### The line above uses the backtick operation, not single quotes!
+ ##########

As far as using the Archive::Tar module, (RTFM) :-)

- f o o g o d