use Archive::Tar;
use Compress::Zlib;
use File::Find;

Syntax() unless @ARGV;

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new();

     find( { wanted => sub {    $tar->add_files($_);    } }, $ARGV[1])
+;

$tardata = $tar->write();

if ($ARGV[2]) {
    open (GZIP, ">" . $ARGV[0] . ".tar.gz");
    binmode(GZIP);
        my $gz = gzopen(\*GZIP, "wb");
        print $gz->gzwrite($tardata);
        $gz->gzclose();
    close(GZIP);
} else {
    my $tardata;
    open (TAR, ">" . $ARGV[0] . ".tar");
    print TAR $tardata;
    close (TAR);
}


sub Syntax {
    
print <<eof;

TAR and optionally GZIP a directory.
tar.pl [tar_name] [dir_2_tar] [GZIP]

e.g. tar.pl example /tmp/example 1
will produce example.tar.gz

eof
exit;
}

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