Perl 5 version 26.3 documentation

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

  1.     ptar -c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] FILE FILE ...
  2.     ptar -c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-T index | -] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -]
  3.     ptar -x [-v] [-z] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -]
  4.     ptar -t [-z] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -]
  5.     ptar -h

OPTIONS

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

SEE ALSO

tar(1), Archive::Tar.