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jr
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Mar 10, 2000, 11:22 AM

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Not Returning Directory List	Can't Post

I'm using an archive system to generate ZIP files of my entire site directory in an archive file, which then is auto-dl'ed to my computer...it works fine, given that it only backups files in the first directory. However, it does not open the sub-directories or archive what is in those directories, though it can SEE the sub-directories...

Is maybe the following code off?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR>

sub GetDirectories()
{
$last_part = split(/\//,$CGIDirectory);
$this_cgi_directory = @_[$last_part-1];

$complete_List = `ls -l $TopDirectory`;
@entryArr = split(/\n/,$complete_List);
$i = 0;
foreach $_ (@entryArr)
{
if((substr($_,0,1) ne "l") && (substr($_,0,1) ne "t"))# no symbolic links and not the total line
{
$number_of_columns = split(/ /,$_);
if((@_[$number_of_columns-1] ne "Archive_It") && (@_[$number_of_columns-1] ne $this_cgi_directory))
{
if($query->param(@_[$number_of_columns-1]) eq "T")
{
@dirArr[$i] = @_[$number_of_columns-1];
#print "@dirArr[$i]<br>";
$i++;
}

}
}
}

}
</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

summer
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Mar 13, 2000, 1:10 PM

Post #2 of 2 (285 views)

Re: Not Returning Directory List [In reply to]	Can't Post

jr,

I'd recommend using the File::Find module:

###########

use File::Find ;

# Get the root of the tree you want to walk.

find( \&wanted, $TopDirectory ) ;

sub wanted {
return if -d ; # Ignore dirs
# put other returns here to ignore anything else, e.g. symbolic links etc.
print "$_\n" ; # Change this to the action to perform.
}

#########

That's it. Let the module take care of the directory handling for you; you just need to deal with individual files.

Of course if you have tar and gzip you could
execute this from your shell:

# tar cvfz myarchive.tar.gz /path/to/files

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