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PTAR(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PTAR(1)

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] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] FILE 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 extraced from ARCHIVE_FILE
    h   Prints this help message

SEE ALSO

    tar(1), L<Archive::Tar>.
2017-03-21 perl v5.10.1