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(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | runtime/perl-532 | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ SEE ALSO tar(1), Archive::Tar. NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.perl.org/. perl v5.32.0 2022-06-28 PTARDIFF(1)