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
x Extract from ARCHIVE_FILE
c Create ARCHIVE_FILE from FILE
t List the contents of ARCHIVE_FILE
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 ALSOtar(1), Archive::Tar.
perl v5.10.0 2009-03-02 PTAR(1)