ptardiff - program that diffs an extracted archive against an unextracted one
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
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-522 | +---------------+------------------+ |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-5.22.1.tar.bz2 Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.perl.org/. perl v5.22.1 2017-06-06 PTARDIFF(1)