Most of the replies have focused on how to do this with external calls to tar or cpio, without actually addressing the original writer's problem, how to do it with Archive::Tar.
The first respondent noted that Archive::Tar doesn't do wildcarding. Or, as it is called in the Perl docs, globbing. What you need to do is create the file list yourself, and pass it to the call. There are a variety of ways you can do this: you can use the File::Find module to build up a list of files, or since you seem to be concerned with just the one directory you can use Perl's built-in globbing functionality with <*> (or with glob(), if you prefer). Look to the perlop manpage (under I/O Operators) for the <*> syntax, or perlfunc for glob(). Randy -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy J. Ray | Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. +1 650 930-9097 | -- Sir Winston Churchill
