Here's a useful example of how to zip a Windows directory and all subdirectories and gif files, while keeping the original directory structure:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Zip qw/ :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS/;
my $maindir = 'C:\StuffToZip';
my $zipfile = 'backup.zip';
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
opendir(MAINDIR, $maindir) or die "Can't open $maindir: $!";
my @folders = readdir(MAINDIR);
foreach (@folders) {
next if $_ =~ /^\./;
if (-d "$maindir\\$_") {
&zip("$_", "$maindir\\$_");
}
else {
print "Error reading $maindir\\$_\n";
}
}
$zip->writeToFileNamed($zipfile) == AZ_OK or die "Can't write >$zipfil
+e<: $!\n";
closedir MAINDIR;
sub zip {
my $type = shift;
my $dir = shift;
#Adds all subdirectories under $maindir and any gif files found
$zip->addTreeMatching( "$dir", "$type", '\.gif$' );
}
Hope it helps.
Cheers