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/usr/bin/ptardiff

various utilities included with perl

From perl-utils 5.44.0-r4 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running ptardiff --usage (exit 255). permalink

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Usage:  ptardiff ARCHIVE_FILE
        ptardiff -h

    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.


Options:
    h   Prints this help message


Sample Usage:

    $ 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)
    ptar
    Archive::Tar

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