Hi

I have been using Archive::Tar for a while and I love it, it makes creating tar archives really simple. Except for one thing...

I am adding files to it with a path something like..


/apps/webroot/service/servicelist/ss/filename.blah

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However when stored in the tar file I only want the path info stored like...

/servicelist/ss/filename.blah

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You see at the moment it's storing the path from the root into the archive that Archive::Tar produces. I don't want this, just the path structure after the /service directory.

When I hand the files to other users it has the /apps/webroot/service section at the start that I do not need/want!

My script is being run from a completly different directory on the server /apps/servicelist/change-history and that is also where I would like the new tar files to appear

Here is the code I am using if anyone is interested..

    my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();
    foreach $updatedFile (@updatedFiles){
        print "Adding to tar ($updatedFile)\n";
    $tar->add_files("$updatedFile");
    }
    foreach $newFile (@newFiles){
        print "Adding to tar ($newFile)\n";
        $tar->add_files("$newFile");
    }
    $tar->write("$tarFile");

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Can anyone suggested a way of overcoming this?

Thanks

M

In reply to Changing path length using Archive::Tar by heezy

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