Re: Creating a tgz file without a module

I've found passing arguments to tar in a system command can be tedious, but this should work (tested)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $dir = '.';

system ('tar', '-zcvf', 'my_tarball.tgz', $dir);
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should do the tarr'ing and gunzipping in one step, packing up everything in $dir

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Re^2: Creating a tgz file without a module by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2011 at 16:34 UTC
FYI and FWIW, you can't count on tar recognizing the "-z" option on all flavors of *nix. I've been burned by this before and it depends on the "flavor" of tar installed on the system. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]
Re^3: Creating a tgz file without a module by rspishock (Monk) on Sep 08, 2011 at 17:07 UTC
Thanks for the advice. Fortunately, this script will only be running on one system so, at least in this case, everything should be fine.	[reply]