How to create Tar using perl?

raj · #1 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 04:45 AM

hi,

how to create tar file using perl?

ragavraj · #2 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 02:20 AM

Here is the script for create a tar file using perl

Quote:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$vDir=shift(@ARGV);
chomp($vDir);
$vDir =~ tr/\///d;
print "Archiving $vDir/* ...\n";
$vTarName=$vDir."test.tar.gz";
$vContent="tar -zpscf ".$vTarName." ".$vDir."/*";
system($vContent);
print("\n");

Thanks
R.Rajan

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