in reply to Cannot add "folder" information to Archive::Tar->add_data in Win32 (ActivePerl)

First, the correct name for the tar file would either be "test.tgz" or "test.tar.gz", not "test.tar.tgz".

Apart from that, I don't understand what your problem is. I ran the script as posted, and it did exactly what I expected: created a gzipped tar file (with an odd name), containing two directories, with one file in each directory, and 13 bytes in each file. When I ran the shell command "tar xzf test.tar.tgz", it created the expected pair of directories in my current working directory, with the expected test*.txt file in each one.

What exactly are you looking for that you are not finding? (What is the "path information" you mentioned, and where do you think that should be?)

(UPDATE: Could it be that you are not using a "real" version of the "tar" utility to unpack the tar file created by your test script? What are you doing with the tar file that makes you think the directory structure is not there?)

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Re^2: Cannot add "folder" information to Archive::Tar->add_data in Win32 (ActivePerl)
by rasa (Initiate) on Nov 05, 2009 at 12:51 UTC
    graff: What you got is precisely what I expected for me too. But in my case when I run the script, it does everything EXCEPT it did NOT create the "test" and "qa" directories as it did for you. In my case it was just ignoring whatever folder name I was passing as part of the name. In which version of ActivePerl did you run this? It always used to work for me, but when I switched to a new machine and installed new Archive::Tar, the "folder" information isn't getting added to the archive file. Which means, when I add files to TAR as I show in the script, it adds all of them to the root, completely ignoring the folder info I am passing to "add_data" method. Please let me know which version you ran the script successfully under?
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      I'm using a vanilla-unix version of perl 5.8.8, not ActiveState. (I happened to be on a macosx machine, but the result would be the same on any unix or linux box.)
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