Apologies, I should of been clearer, I actually do exactally what you said already, I just shortend the paths to improve the look & feel on perl monks and forgot to shorten one of them in my original question.

All files are indeed under the path:

/webroot/service/servicelist/ss/

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I am adding the symlink name and not the file to the archive already as...

tar->add_files("/webroot/service/servicelist/ss/rasprofile-fr-eng.pdf"
+);

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Sorry for the confusion, there is actually no file at...

/webroot/rasprofile-fr-eng.pdf

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In reply to Re: Re: symlinks in Archive::Tar? by heezy
in thread symlinks in Archive::Tar? by heezy

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