I don't know why this doesn't work, but the addDirectory method of Archive::Zip just doesn't add anything.

It doesn't crash the script, it doesn't produce any errors or warnings.

The directory is in the same folder as the script, and all the other files add perfectly fine, and a perfect zip file is produced.

Its just that the zip is produced without the directory in it

Here is the script:

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#!/opt/ActivePerl-5.6/bin/perl

# Archive::Zip is available for ActiveState perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Zip qw ( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
my @files = glob("*.txt");

foreach (@files) {
  my $member = $zip->addFile($_);
  die "Cannot add $_ to zip!"  unless $member;
}

##############################
### Right here is the addDirectory ###
##############################

$zip->addDirectory("dir1");

$zip->writeToFileNamed( "zipfile.zip" );

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In reply to $zip->addDirectory isn't doing anything. by heigold1

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