I'm trying to do what I thought would be a very simple task: Create a zipfile with the contents of an entire directory, passed in to a function. I wrote (with very minor changes from the real code): 

sub create_zipfile {
    my ($path) = @_;

    my $UUID = Data::GUID->new->as_string();
    my $zipfile_name = $UUID . ".zip";

    my $full_path = $path . "/" . $zipfile_name;
    
    my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
    $zip->addTree($path, undef);

    if ( ! $zip->writeToFileNamed($full_path) == AZ_OK ) {
    print "Error writing zipfile: $!\n";
    }

    return $full_path;
}

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I tried to run this as "my $filename = create_zipfile("/path/to/directory");", and it fails with IO error: Can't open /path/to/directory/0BE30138-93B4-81EE-93CD-DC592DB8B6F0.zip for write : No such file or directory. Which--I know there's no such file or directory, I'm asking it to be created.

In a previous version of this--and I don't remember what's different, and can't replicate it--it did create a zipfile, but it was empty.

I'd be grateful for a pointer; this would seem to be the main way one would use this module, but I can't find discussion of how to do this! Thanks.

In reply to Archive::Zip: save entire directory? by Anonymous Monk

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