Manual: ptargrep

PTARGREP(1)				      Perl Programmers Reference Guide					 PTARGREP(1)

NAME
       ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive

SYNOPSIS
	 ptargrep [options]   ...

	 Options:

	  --basename|-b	    ignore directory paths from archive
	  --ignore-case|-i  do case-insensitive pattern matching
	  --list-only|-l    list matching filenames rather than extracting matches
	  --verbose|-v	    write debugging message to STDERR
	  --help|-?	    detailed help message

DESCRIPTION
       This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to the contents of files contained in a tar archive.  You might use
       this to identify all files in an archive which contain lines matching the specified pattern and either print out the
       pathnames or extract the files.

       The pattern will be used as a Perl regular expression (as opposed to a simple grep regex).

       Multiple tar archive filenames can be specified - they will each be processed in turn.

OPTIONS
       --basename (alias -b)
	   When	 matching files are extracted, ignore the directory path from the archive and write to the current directory
	   using the basename of the file from the archive.  Beware: if two matching files in  the  archive  have  the	same
	   basename, the second file extracted will overwrite the first.

       --ignore-case (alias -i)
	   Make pattern matching case-insensitive.

       --list-only (alias -l)
	   Print  the pathname of each matching file from the archive to STDOUT.  Without this option, the default behaviour
	   is to extract each matching file.

       --verbose (alias -v)
	   Log debugging info to STDERR.

       --help (alias -?)
	   Display this documentation.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2010 Grant McLean 

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.40.1						 2026-06-12						 PTARGREP(1)