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ptardiff (1)

Name

ptardiff - program that diffs an extracted archive against an unextracted one

Synopsis

ptardiff ARCHIVE_FILE
ptardiff -h

$ tar -xzf Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz
$ vi Acme-Buffy-1.3/README
[...]
$ ptardiff Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz > README.patch

Description




Perl Programmers Reference Guide                      PTARDIFF(1)



NAME
     ptardiff - program that diffs an extracted archive against
     an unextracted one

DESCRIPTION
         ptardiff is a small program that diffs an extracted archive
         against an unextracted one, using the perl module Archive::Tar.

         This effectively lets you view changes made to an archives contents.

         Provide the progam with an ARCHIVE_FILE and it will look up all
         the files with in the archive, scan the current working directory
         for a file with the name and diff it against the contents of the
         archive.

SYNOPSIS
         ptardiff ARCHIVE_FILE
         ptardiff -h

         $ tar -xzf Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz
         $ vi Acme-Buffy-1.3/README
         [...]
         $ ptardiff Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz > README.patch

OPTIONS
         h   Prints this help message


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | runtime/perl-512 |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
     +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
     tar(1), Archive::Tar.



NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2

     Further information about this software can be found on the
     open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.



perl v5.12.5         Last change: 2014-06-17                    1