PTAR(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PTAR(1)NAMEptar - a tar-like program written in perl
DESCRIPTIONptar is a small, tar look-alike program that uses the perl module
Archive::Tar to extract, create and list tar archives.
SYNOPSISptar-c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-f ARCHIVE_FILE | -] FILE FILE ...
ptar-c [-v] [-z] [-C] [-T index | -] [-f ARCHIVE_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
T get names to create from file
SEE ALSOtar(1), L<Archive::Tar>.
perl v5.18.2 2014-05-13 PTAR(1)