On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 22:40 -0400, Mathew Snyder 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?
You might want to look at the rsync command rather than rolling your own. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
