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## 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.