Re^2: tar help

[snyder]

I have already achieved success with your first 3 recommendations. What I did find useful was your advice on the IO::Dir with the code below I can print to screen the files I wish to tar.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Dir;

    tie %dir, 'IO::Dir', "/var/lib/mysql/club";
    foreach (keys %dir) {
         print $_, " " ,"\n";

    }

how would I use this to achieve my objective?

[derby]

my @files;
tie %dir, 'IO::Dir', "/var/lib/mysql/club";
foreach (keys %dir) {
  next if $_ eq ".";
  next if $_ eq "..";
  push( @files, "/var/lib/mysql/club/" . $_ );
}

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new; 
$tar->add_files( @files );
$tar->write('club_db.tar');

but .... don't forget to check for errors

[snyder]

thanks, it is throwing an error but I am going to monkey with it. in an effort to understand the code piece by piece did you create an empty list/variable with the below

my @files;