unfortunately, no. It has predetermined file locations spread across the drive
Mathew Rodrick Brown wrote: > On 5/3/07, Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been given a task of installing a piece of backup software, >> then tarring >> up all of the associated files in order to automate the installation >> onto other >> machines. The only way I can think of doing this is to do an ls -l on >> / and >> then doing a diff after the installation and manually adding those >> files to a >> tar command. >> >> What I'd rather do is automate this using perl. gather a list of the >> files, >> perform the installation, getting a list of the new files by way of a >> diff or >> some such and adding all those files to a tar command or some such. >> >> Has anyone done such a thing or know of a module I should look at to >> achieve this? >> >> Mathew >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://learn.perl.org/ >> >> >> > > Can you specify an installation prefix dir? ie /usr/local/mysoftware > then you can simply use readdir() to get list of files in that > directory. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
