I had a similar need, but my files don't even exist on disk. I was building a web server that returns tars of files that came from other web servers. I never "cleanly" integrated my approach with Archive::Tar or packaged it up nicely, but here is the gist of it:

I take a callback from the caller, and call it to do any output. I pass the callback into HTTP::Request to retrieve the file from the remote site and pass it through to the web client. 

for each file
{
    HEAD the file on the remote server to get the file size
    use Archive::Tar::File's internal _format_tar_entry to write the t
+ar header
    use HTTP::Request to retrieve the file from the remote server, pas
+sing it the callback for output
    write TAR_PAD to fill out the BLOCK
}
write TAR_END x 2

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Any ideas on a clean way to build a generic module that I could use are welcome...

In reply to Re: RFC: Archive::Tar::Streamed by ctilmes
in thread RFC: Archive::Tar::Streamed by rinceWind

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