Re^6: 7zip a folder

Basically, what I am doing now is to move all the files falling into my date range to a new folder which foldername is the timestamp of those files, then zip all the file under this folder, I could not get it through, because it is saying \$foldername\ the system cannot find the path specified.

$date = strftime("%Y-%m-%d", localtime);
mkdir my $foldername = "D:/log_script/Archive/$date";
my @cmd = 
    'D:/app/7-Zip/7z.exe',
    'a', '-mx9', 
    'D:/log_script/Archive/target.zip',
    '$foldername/*.log'
     );
print 'about to execute: ', Dumper \@cmd;
system @cmd;
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Re^7: 7zip a folder by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 06, 2017 at 19:24 UTC
Have you printed `@cmd` before running it through `system`? If you have done so, you will see that single quotes do not interpolate variables. `$forldername` appears verbatim in your command. Most likely, you want to use double quotes instead: `"$foldername/*.log",` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]