Using archive::tar for archiving a folder

[Aman Thind]

Hello Friends,

I wish to archive a folder into a .tar

I've been searching through the documentation of archive::tar module but
could not find a way by which I could make the .tar just by specifying the
folder name (like on unix prompt "tar -cvf myarchive.tar myfoldername") and
not explicitly stating the filenames.

Some suggestions plz...

Thanx a lot
aman

[David]

Aman Thind wrote:

> Hello Friends,
>
> I wish to archive a folder into a .tar
>
> I've been searching through the documentation of archive::tar module but
> could not find a way by which I could make the .tar just by specifying the
> folder name (like on unix prompt "tar -cvf myarchive.tar myfoldername")
> and not explicitly stating the filenames.

Archive::Tar has a class method that does exactly like that:

[panda]$ perl -MArchive::Tar -e \
'Archive::Tar->create_archive("/tmp/test.tar",0,glob("*.pl"))'

[panda]$ ls -l /tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 x x 9216 Feb 10 10:59 test.tar

arguments to create_archive:

1. name of the archive you want to create. in your example, it would be
myarchive.tar

2. compression level from 2 to 9. any other values will use the default
level.

3. a list of files to add to the archive. in my example above, all files
ending in .pl will be archived to /tmp/test.tar

david
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