PTARDIFF(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation 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 ARCHIVEFILE 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 ARCHIVEFILE
           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

OOPPTTIIOONNSS
           h   Prints this help message

SEE ALSO
       tar(1), Archive::Tar.



perl v5.8.8                       2006-02-04                       PTARDIFF(1)