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.IX Title "PTARGREP 1"
.TH PTARGREP 1 2024-04-05 "perl v5.38.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
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.SH NAME
ptargrep \- Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&  ptargrep [options] <pattern> <tar file> ...
\&
\&  Options:
\&
\&   \-\-basename|\-b     ignore directory paths from archive
\&   \-\-ignore\-case|\-i  do case\-insensitive pattern matching
\&   \-\-list\-only|\-l    list matching filenames rather than extracting matches
\&   \-\-verbose|\-v      write debugging message to STDERR
\&   \-\-help|\-?         detailed help message
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to \fBthe contents\fR of files
contained in a tar archive.  You might use this to identify all files in an
archive which contain lines matching the specified pattern and either print out
the pathnames or extract the files.
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The pattern will be used as a Perl regular expression (as opposed to a simple
grep regex).
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Multiple tar archive filenames can be specified \- they will each be processed
in turn.
.SH OPTIONS
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.IP "\fB\-\-basename\fR (alias \-b)" 4
.IX Item "--basename (alias -b)"
When matching files are extracted, ignore the directory path from the archive
and write to the current directory using the basename of the file from the
archive.  Beware: if two matching files in the archive have the same basename,
the second file extracted will overwrite the first.
.IP "\fB\-\-ignore\-case\fR (alias \-i)" 4
.IX Item "--ignore-case (alias -i)"
Make pattern matching case-insensitive.
.IP "\fB\-\-list\-only\fR (alias \-l)" 4
.IX Item "--list-only (alias -l)"
Print the pathname of each matching file from the archive to STDOUT.  Without
this option, the default behaviour is to extract each matching file.
.IP "\fB\-\-verbose\fR (alias \-v)" 4
.IX Item "--verbose (alias -v)"
Log debugging info to STDERR.
.IP "\fB\-\-help\fR (alias \-?)" 4
.IX Item "--help (alias -?)"
Display this documentation.
.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright 2010 Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.