PTAR

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 './default.tar'
    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.