ptardiff -V (return code: 2)
This tool requires the 'Text::Diff' module to be installed
ptardiff -h (return code: 255)
Usage: ptardiff ARCHIVE_FILE
ptardiff -h
ptardiff is a small program that diffs an extracted archive
against an unextracted one, using the perl module Archive::Tar.
This effectively lets you view changes made to an archives contents.
Provide the progam with an ARCHIVE_FILE and it will look up all
the files with in the archive, scan the current working directory
for a file with the name and diff it against the contents of the
archive.
Options:
h Prints this help message
Sample Usage:
$ tar -xzf Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz
$ vi Acme-Buffy-1.3/README
[...]
$ ptardiff Acme-Buffy-1.3.tar.gz > README.patch
See Also:
tar(1)
ptar
Archive::Tar