gzip can only compress single files.

Maybe you want to use a different archive format, like .zip or .rar? Or maybe you want to send a tar archive of gzipped files, which might be slightly larger yet still pass that virus scanner?

Also note that you don't have to use open if all you want to do is run an external process. system allows you to run an external process, and backticks allow you to capture the output of a subprocess.

You can even archive and compress the folder in one go:

my $tgz = "$tar cf - $dir/* | gzip -9c";
open my $gzipped, "$tgz |"
    or die "Couldn't run [$tgz]: $!/$?";
binmode $gzipped;
$/ = \4096;
print while <$gzipped>;

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