Thanks for all the input. I've found that the program puts most of its files in one location and only a few in one other. I don't actually need to worry about this anymore as the tar command isn't as long as I thought it would be.
Mathew 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? > > Mathew > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
