Re^3: Getting IO::Compress::Zip to include directory entries (on Windows)

what I'm trying to do is include the directory entry itself

In the docs it says filenames only

If $input is an array reference, each element in the array must be a filename. The input data will be read from each file in turn. The complete array will be walked to ensure that it only contains valid filenames before any data is compressed.

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Re^4: Getting IO::Compress::Zip to include directory entries (on Windows) by pmqs (Friar) on Feb 03, 2016 at 13:10 UTC
IO::Compress::Zip cannot write directories (without jumping through a lot of hoops) by design. I do have another module, called Archive::Zip::SimpleZip (it actually uses IO::Compress::Zip under the hood), that can create directories. Here is a example of how to use it `use strict ; use warnings; use Archive::Zip::SimpleZip; my @dirs = ("WEB-INF"); my $zip = Archive::Zip::SimpleZip->new("test.zip"); $zip->add($_) for @dirs; $zip->close();` [download] and here is what the commandline unzip this about the zip file `$ unzip -l test.zip Archive: test.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 0 02-03-2016 12:58 WEB-INF/ --------- ------- 0 1 file` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: Getting IO::Compress::Zip to include directory entries (on Windows)
by pmqs (Friar) on Feb 03, 2016 at 13:10 UTC

IO::Compress::Zip cannot write directories (without jumping through a lot of hoops) by design.

I do have another module, called Archive::Zip::SimpleZip (it actually uses IO::Compress::Zip under the hood), that can create directories.

Here is a example of how to use it

use strict ;
use warnings;
use Archive::Zip::SimpleZip;

my @dirs = ("WEB-INF");

my $zip = Archive::Zip::SimpleZip->new("test.zip");
$zip->add($_) for @dirs;
$zip->close();
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and here is what the commandline unzip this about the zip file

$ unzip -l test.zip 
Archive:  test.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
        0  02-03-2016 12:58   WEB-INF/
---------                     -------
        0                     1 file
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