PTAR(1)

🎀 ptar(1) 🎀

okay so hi bestie 💖 welcome to the Perl Programmers Reference Guide page for ptar — it’s giving tiny tar energy and we’re gonna understand it together, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ptar — a tar-like program written in perl. It’s a small, tar look-alike program that uses the perl module Archive::Tar to extract, create and list tar archives. periodt 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

           ptar -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

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💅 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.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

tar(1), Archive::Tar.

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that’s the whole vibe, bestie 💖 sourced from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03 — now go make an archive and slay ✨👑