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 ALSO

tar(1), Archive::Tar.