Manual: ptardiff

PTARDIFF(1)				      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

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

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