1PTARGREP(1)           User Contributed Perl Documentation          PTARGREP(1)
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NAME

6       ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar
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SYNOPSIS

10         ptargrep [options] <pattern> <tar file> ...
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14          --basename|-b     ignore directory paths from archive
15          --ignore-case|-i  do case-insensitive pattern matching
16          --list-only|-l    list matching filenames rather than extracting matches
17          --verbose|-v      write debugging message to STDERR
18          --help|-?         detailed help message
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DESCRIPTION

21       This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to the contents of
22       files contained in a tar archive.  You might use this to identify all
23       files in an archive which contain lines matching the specified pattern
24       and either print out the pathnames or extract the files.
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26       The pattern will be used as a Perl regular expression (as opposed to a
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29       Multiple tar archive filenames can be specified - they will each be
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OPTIONS

33       --basename (alias -b)
34           When matching files are extracted, ignore the directory path from
35           the archive and write to the current directory using the basename
36           of the file from the archive.  Beware: if two matching files in the
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40       --ignore-case (alias -i)
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43       --list-only (alias -l)
44           Print the pathname of each matching file from the archive to
45           STDOUT.  Without this option, the default behaviour is to extract
46           each matching file.
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48       --verbose (alias -v)
49           Log debugging info to STDERR.
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51       --help (alias -?)
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55       Copyright 2010 Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>
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57       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
58       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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