1. NAME▲

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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. OPTIONS ▲

h Prints this help message

5. SEE ALSO ▲

tar (1), Archive::Tar.