PTARDIFF(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PTARDIFF(1) 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. perl v5.10.0 2011-01-17 PTARDIFF(1)