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my @files;
tie %dir, 'IO::Dir', "/var/lib/mysql/club";
foreach (keys %dir) {
  next if $_ eq ".";
  next if $_ eq "..";
  push( @files, "/var/lib/mysql/club/" . $_ );
}

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new; 
$tar->add_files( @files );
$tar->write('club_db.tar');

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but .... don't forget to check for errors

-derby

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Re^4: tar help
by snyder (Initiate) on Mar 23, 2006 at 17:56 UTC
    thanks, it is throwing an error but I am going to monkey with it. in an effort to understand the code piece by piece did you create an empty list/variable with the below 
    my @files;

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