- 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.