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NAME

6       ptardiff - program that diffs an extracted archive against an
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DESCRIPTION

10           ptardiff is a small program that diffs an extracted archive
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13           This effectively lets you view changes made to an archives contents.
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15           Provide the progam with an ARCHIVE_FILE and it will look up all
16           the files with in the archive, scan the current working directory
17           for a file with the name and diff it against the contents of the
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SYNOPSIS

21           ptardiff ARCHIVE_FILE
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24           $ tar -xzf Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz
25           $ vi Acme-Buffy-1.3/README
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27           $ ptardiff Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz > README.patch
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OPTIONS

30           h   Prints this help message
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SEE ALSO

33       tar(1), Archive::Tar.
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