This is a routine I've used in the past to add files to an Archive::Tar object (in the process of creating a tar archive). My objective was to get relative paths in the archive, rather than paths from the root.

Usage: 

    my $tar = Archive::Tar->new;
    add_to_tar($tar, $thing_to_add, $base_dir);
    $tar->write($gz, 9);

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$thing_to_add can be either a file or a directory.

$base_dir is the key to relative paths. For example, say I had a directory directory '/foo/bar', and in that directory is another directory 'baz'. I can do something like this: 

    add_to_tar($tar, 'baz', '/foo/bar');

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Alternatively, the second directory could contain the full path: 
    add_to_tar($tar, '/foo/bar/baz', '/foo/bar');

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Hope this is useful.
    sub add_to_tar {
        my($tar, $thing, $base) = @_;

        if (defined $base) {
            chdir $base or die "Can't chdir to $base: $!";
            $thing =~ s!^$base/?!!;
        }

        if (-f $thing) {
            $tar->add_files($thing);
        }
        elsif (-d $thing) {
            my $code = sub {
                return if !-f $_;

                local *FH;
                open FH, $_ or die "Can't open $_: $!";
                binmode FH;
                my $c = do { local $/; <FH> };
                close FH or die "Can't close $_: $!";

                $tar->add_data($File::Find::name, $c);
            };
            find $code, $thing;
        }
    }

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In reply to Adding files to Archive::Tar by btrott

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