package and tar file

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks, I've got a problem that Im not sure how to go about solving as I've never done anything like this before.

Basically theres this script, MID_poc_constructor.pl, that when executed, produces a datafile.

I need to create a script to execute the above script, if done so successfully, it will create a Package File (pkf) and archive this somewhere.
On successful creation of the pkf it will execute $SCL_PERL_PATH/SCL_exp.pl which will construct a tar file for the Packaged datafile (i.e. the name of the pkf create should be input into the script).

Ive have a quick look and i cant seem to find any modules that provide a function to Package and tar files. Could anyone point me in the right direction or provide some code that will do the job?

Cheers everyone, Steve

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Re: package and tar file by Aragorn (Curate) on Jan 08, 2004 at 08:29 UTC
You can use Archive::Tar for creating tar files, but what is a "Package" file? Arjen	[reply]
Re: package and tar file by chimni (Pilgrim) on Jan 08, 2004 at 08:26 UTC
One thing you can do is use the tar utility System command from your script can invoke it tar -cvf <filename>.tar <filename> <filename1> .. This will compress all the files into filename.tar. to untar just do tar -xvf hello.tar HTH, chimni	[reply]