I have several folders and files in it. What I am trying to do is to zip only several (unspecific) of them, delete the files after they got zipped and execute the script again - as long as I have all folders and files in the zip file. This is to avoid script timeouts, when I have a lot of files to zip (I don't want to use fork proc::deamon btw). But each time I execute the script, ALL of the folders and files are written to the zip-file. I don't know why, because @file only holds the name of the files from 1 to 50. Here's the code: 

use Archive::Zip;
my @errors;
Archive::Zip::setErrorHandler(sub { push @errors, $_[0] });

my $zippath = "../backups/$username";
my $dest_path = '../backups';

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();

$status =$zip->writeToFileNamed("$dest_path/$username.zip");

@files = $zip->addTree( "$zippath" );
@files = $zip->memberNames();
@file = splice @files, 1, 50;
 
foreach $line (@file) {

   $fileend = (split(/\./,"$line"))[-1];
    if (($fileend eq "jpg") || ($fileend eq "txt")) {
       $zip->addFile("$line");
      #$status = $zip->writeToFileNamed("$dest_path/$username.zip");
     
  }

 }
 # Save the Zip file
 unless ( $zip->writeToFileNamed("../backups/$username.zip") == AZ_OK 
+) {
       die 'write error';
   }

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Thanks in advance!

In reply to Archive::ZIP - Zip selection of files by gmaniac

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