in reply to Archive::Tar- how do I tar a whole directory tree

The last argument of create_archive is a list. You can generate a list of files that would be in a directory using glob. So you can call this as : 
Archive::Tar->create_archive( "my.tar.gz", 9, glob "/this/*", glob "/t
+hat/*" );

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Re: Archive::Tar - how do you tar a directory tree?
by foogod (Friar) on Jan 08, 2002 at 20:20 UTC

    TIMTOWTDI

    A simple way is the command line code: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
my $destination = "Archive_filename_to_be_created";
my $source      = "/home/users/billyjo/stuff_to_backup/";
my $cmd         = `tar -cpf $destination $source`;
####### The line above uses the backtick operation, not single quotes!
+ ##########

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    As far as using the Archive::Tar module, (RTFM) :-)

    - f o o g o d

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