Beelzebub has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I have written a programm which creates a number of files, a text file (which holds information on the quantity of files just produced) and places it on the server. What I would like to do now is zip or hqx those files. Can anybody help me with my problem?

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Re: Creating Zip files
by MadraghRua (Vicar) on Nov 17, 2000 at 23:48 UTC
    You might try system("/usr/bin/gzip -f $file") or die "Can't zip $file\n"; It depends on what you're trying to do. If the files are going to a directory, you might tar that directory and then zip it. Or you you might want to do them individually. Try the Cookbook for more examples.
    Good luck.

    MadraghRua
    yet another biologist hacking perl....

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(crazyinsomniac) Re: Creating Zip files
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Nov 18, 2000 at 09:14 UTC
    If you're on a win platform, just try passing commandline options to Winzip or Winrar(**better**).

    "cRaZy is co01, but sometimes cRaZy is cRaZy".
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Re: Creating Zip files
by elwarren (Priest) on Nov 19, 2000 at 07:44 UTC
    Check out the Compress::ZLib module...
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Re: Creating Zip files
by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Nov 18, 2000 at 19:36 UTC
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