in reply to creating .tar.gz file

You can do what you want using Archive::Tar so long as IO::Zlib is also installed. The Archive::Tar documentation explains this.

You could also use 'tar' and 'gzip' commands from the command line - or from within system() commands within perl.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: creating .tar.gz file
by narainhere (Monk) on Oct 31, 2007 at 12:23 UTC
    The second solution looks promising, some time back I was to do the same, here it goes 
    $cmd="tar -cvf xyz.tar xyz.txt 2>&1";
system($cmd);

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    This creates a archive named xyz.tar containing xyz.txt then 
    $cmd="gzip xyz.tar 2>&1";
system($cmd);

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    will create the xyz.tar.gz file for you!!

    The world is so big for any individual to conquer

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      If your tar supports it, the you can make tar directly invoke gzip in one command, creating a .tar.gz file in one go, using the -z command line switch.
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      ... or even (from memory, which at my time of life ain't what it used to be) ... 

      `tar -cv xyz.txt | gzip -c > xyz.tgz`;

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      At last, a user level that best describes my experience :-))
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