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PTARDIFF(1)Perl Programmers Reference GuidePTARDIFF(1)

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

    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.

    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

    h   Prints this help message

tar(1), Archive::Tar.

2025-04-12perl v5.36.0