After some research on another way of doing this I found that it could be done using Archive::Zip. I have a sample code that does check the size of a zip before zipping all the files in a directory, it only needs to be implemented to build multiple zip files if the files size exceed the permitted volume. Anyone? 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Archive::Zip qw/AZ_OK/;
use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;

use constant MB => 1024 * 1024;

my $dir = '/allfiletozip/';
my @files = do {
 opendir my $fd, "$dir" or die $! or die $!;
 grep -f, map  "$dir$_", readdir $fd;
};

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new;
my $total;
my $limit = 50*MB;

foreach my $file (@files) {

 my $temp = Archive::Zip->new;

 my $member = $temp->addFile($file);
 next unless $member->compressedSize;

 my $fh = tempfile();
 $temp->writeToFileHandle($fh) == AZ_OK or die $!;
 
 $zip->addMember($member);
 $total += $member->compressedSize;
 die "$total bytes exceeds archive size limit" if $total > $limit;
}

print "Total archive size: $total bytes\n\n";

$zip->writeToFileNamed('zipped.zip') == AZ_OK or die $!;

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Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: Grouping files before zipping! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Grouping files before zipping! by Anonymous Monk

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