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

hi. I'm a new user to perl.. very new infact and i have to zip folders, subfolders and files. could u suggest a method of doing so using perl.

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Re: zip files
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 19, 2009 at 07:01 UTC
Re: zip files
by ashok13123 (Novice) on Jun 19, 2009 at 12:00 UTC
    You can do archiving by going inside the main folder doing
    `tar czvf name.tgz *`
    .Is this you want ?????

      Probably not, as the OP asked for ZIP files, not tarballs.

      Alexander

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