ptardiff

Langue: en

Version: 2009-04-10 (fedora - 04/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

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.