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Man Page: ptar

Operating Environment: debian

Section: 1

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] [-C] [-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 extracted from ARCHIVE_FILE h Prints this help message C CPAN mode - drop 022 from permissions
SEE ALSO
tar(1), L<Archive::Tar>. perl v5.14.2 2014-09-30 PTAR(1)
Related Man Pages
archive::tar::file(3pm) - mojave
cpanplus::internals::extract(3pm) - mojave
archive::tar(3) - redhat
cpanplus::internals::extract(3) - centos
archive::tar::file(3pm) - suse
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