use strict; use warnings; use Archive::Zip qw/AZ_OK/; use File::Temp qw/tempfile/; use constant MB => 1024 * 1024; my $dir = '/allfiletozip/'; my @files = do { opendir my $fd, "$dir" or die $! or die $!; grep -f, map "$dir$_", readdir $fd; }; my $zip = Archive::Zip->new; my $total; my $limit = 50*MB; foreach my $file (@files) { my $temp = Archive::Zip->new; my $member = $temp->addFile($file); next unless $member->compressedSize; my $fh = tempfile(); $temp->writeToFileHandle($fh) == AZ_OK or die $!; $zip->addMember($member); $total += $member->compressedSize; die "$total bytes exceeds archive size limit" if $total > $limit; } print "Total archive size: $total bytes\n\n"; $zip->writeToFileNamed('zipped.zip') == AZ_OK or die $!;