NAME

ptar - a tar-like program written in perl

DESCRIPTION

ptar is a small, tar look-alike program that uses the perl module Archive::Tar to extract, create and list tar archives.

SYNOPSIS

    ptar -c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] FILE FILE ...    ptar -c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-T index | -] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -]    ptar -x [-v] [-z] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -]    ptar -t [-z] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -]    ptar -h

OPTIONS

    c   Create ARCHIVE_FILE or STDOUT (-) from FILE    x   Extract from ARCHIVE_FILE or STDIN (-)    t   List the contents of ARCHIVE_FILE or STDIN (-)    f   Name of the ARCHIVE_FILE to use. Default is './default.tar'    z   Read/Write zlib compressed ARCHIVE_FILE (not always available)    v   Print filenames as they are added or extracted from ARCHIVE_FILE    h   Prints this help message    C   CPAN mode - drop 022 from permissions    T   get names to create from file

SEE ALSO

tar(1), Archive::Tar.