in reply to Creating Tarballs in a perl scripts

I just tested this and it grabs hidden files. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $dir = '.';
system ('tar', '-zcvf', 'my_tarball.tgz', $dir);

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Re^2: Creating Tarballs in a perl scripts
by stevieb (Canon) on Jun 11, 2012 at 17:29 UTC

    Using zentara's code, I also confirm it working on Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and FreeBSD 9.0.

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