Hi Monks 7zip via Perl appears to only display what it is doing once it's done, I've tried various flushing techniques with no success. One thing I can't seem to get right is trying it with backticks or qx so could someone please tell me the best way to do it. Putting backticks around the our zip_cmd gives me an error 7zip is not an internal or external command...

An example command 7z.exe a -r -mx0 -tzip c:\temp\test.zip d:\*

a=archive -r=recursive -mx0=NoCompression -tzip=ZipFormat zipPath and D: is the item to zip. 

our $zip_cmd = '"c:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z.exe"';                  
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our $zip_options = 'a -r -mx0 -tzip';

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my $command = $zip_cmd . ' ' . $zip_options . ' ' . $target_zip

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In reply to Perl and 7zip and backticks by Anonymous Monk

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