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Name

ptar - a tar-like program written in perl

Description

ptar is a small, tar look-alike program that uses the perl module Archive::Tar to extract, create and list tar archives.

Synopsis

\& ptar -c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] FILE FILE ... \& ptar -c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-T index | -] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] \& ptar -x [-v] [-z] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] \& ptar -t [-z] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] \& ptar -h

Options

\& c Create ARCHIVE_FILE or STDOUT (-) from FILE \& x Extract from ARCHIVE_FILE or STDIN (-) \& t List the contents of ARCHIVE_FILE or STDIN (-) \& f Name of the ARCHIVE_FILE to use. Default is \*(Aq./default.tar\*(Aq \& z Read/Write zlib compressed ARCHIVE_FILE (not always available) \& v Print filenames as they are added or extracted from ARCHIVE_FILE \& h Prints this help message \& C CPAN mode - drop 022 from permissions \& T get names to create from file

See Also

\&tar\|(1), Archive::Tar.