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

NAME  DESCRIPTION  SYNOPSIS  OPTIONS  SEE ALSO 

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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