Re: file lists and diffs?
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/
Re: file lists and diffs?
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/
Re: file lists and diffs?
I think Rodrick's idea is best. But if the installation process doesn't let you specify an installation directory, and if it doesn't document where it's putting the binaries and config files, then perhaps right after the install you could use the find command in a manner such as the following: # find / -xdev -ctime -1 The output should help guide you as to what got installed. --- Rodrick Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- Rodrick R. Brown http://www.rodrickbrown.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
Re: file lists and diffs?
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/
file lists and diffs?
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/
Re: file lists and diffs?
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. -- Rodrick R. Brown http://www.rodrickbrown.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
