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
-- "Anthony E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> How can I get this to tar the entire backup
>> directory? And if I wanted to
>> say pic out all file based on extensions later on
>> like .pl *.pl how to do
>> that as well with this?
gnu cpio will write tar:
find $dir | cpio -ov -Htar | gzip --best
not sure about Archive::Tar...but here's the command
line, you can call this in your perl script.
"tar czf ./test.tar.gz ./backups --files-from
./include.txt"
If you wanted to include only *.pl, just put "*.pl" in
your include.txt file. (same goes for exclusion,
Waay offtopic. But here goes:
On Wednesday, 2002-09-11 at 04:06:20 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to use the following program to archive directories of large
> files but I can not get any wildcard combination to work:
Archive::Tar does not do Wildcards.
> #!/usr
Hello,
I am trying to use the following program to archive directories of large
files but I can not get any wildcard combination to work:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Archive::Tar;
Archive::Tar->create_archive ("test.tar", 9, "backup/*.*");
print join "\n", Arch
