I tried removing the open() and close() outside of the foreach loop, but cause of the zip gets done before the text file the log.txt file inside of the zip file is empty, any suggestions? Thanks! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use File::Basename;
use File::stat;
use File::Slurp qw(read_dir);
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );

# zip stuff:::
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();   # new instance
#Archive::Zip::setChunkSize( 2000 );
#my $chunkSize = Archive::Zip::chunkSize(); 

my ($file_path, $file_name, $zipped, $flag,$k_size);
$flag = '';

# vars
my @files;

# get the files from here:::
my @directories = qw( /var/www/test_1 /var/www/test_2);

# set sizes:::
my $min_size = 1024; # bytes => 1K
my $max_size = 10485760; # bytes =>10MB

# go in the directories:::
my $c;
for my $d (@directories) {    
    $c++;                      
    push @files, grep { -f && -s _ >= $min_size && -s _ <= $max_size }
+ read_dir( $d, prefix => 1 );
}

#get file sizes just in case:::

open (INDEXFILE, '>>log.txt');

foreach my $files(@files) { 
  
  my $size = stat($files)->size / 1024; # size in kilobytes
     $k_size = sprintf ("%03d", $size);  
   
  # do some clean up:::
  $files=~s/[\r\n]+//;
     
  if($files =~/(.*?)\/([^\/]+)$/) { 
       
    $file_path=$1; $file_name=$2; 

    }

  # creating log file:::

  print INDEXFILE "$file_name - $k_size Kb\n";


  $zipped = $zip->addFile('log.txt') unless $zip->memberNamed('log.txt
+');
  $zipped = $zip->addFile($files,$file_name);

}
 die $flag="Failed" unless $zip->writeToFileNamed( 'test.zip' ) == AZ_
+OK;

close (INDEXFILE);

# show status:::
if($flag eq "Failed") {
    print "\n\nError in archive creation!\n\n";
} else {
    print "\n\nArchive created successfully!\n\n";
}

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In reply to Re^2: Zipping Files Help! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Zipping Files Help! by Anonymous Monk

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