Sortix nightly manual
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| PTARDIFF(1) | Perl Programmers Reference Guide | PTARDIFF(1) |
NAME
ptardiff - program that diffs an extracted archive against an unextracted oneDESCRIPTION
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
SEE ALSO
tar(1), Archive::Tar.| 2024-12-26 | perl v5.32.0 |