Hello all,

I am creating a small helper script to create/delete webs. I decided I wanted to have the script archive all of the files in the web directory and place the tar file in a defunct directory. After searching around on CPAN and the like, I decided to use File::Find to traverse the directory for all files, and Archive::Tar to archive/compress the files. Here is what I have now: 

sub del_web() {
...
  my($tar) = Archive::Tar->new();

  $tar->read("$web_to_del.tar.gz",1);

  find(\&archive, "$web_base/$web_to_del");

  $tar->write("$defunct_dir/$web_to_del.tar.gz",1);

  sub archive { $tar->add_files($File::Find::name); } # line 394
...
}

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This code works, but, I have two issues with this: I get this warning: 
Variable "$tar" will not stay shared at web_admin.pl line 394.

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I don't quite understand the warning (I am quite new to Perl). Also, the files are archived with the full path from root. Preferably, I would like the files to get stored from the relative path of the web directory. I haven't been able to get this to work properly. For example, the way the tar files get created now: 
/long/full/path/to/webdir
/long/full/path/to/webdir/www
...

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The way I want them: 
webdir/
webdir/www
webdir/cgi-bin
...

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This is just a preference, but it would be nice.

If anyone has any suggestions on a better way to do this I would glady appreciate them.

Thanks,

Bren

In reply to Better way to use File::Find and Archive::Tar by brendonc

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