ptargrep
Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive
Synopsis
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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description
This utility
allows you to apply pattern matching to the contents
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.
The pattern
will be used as a Perl regular expression (as opposed to a
simple grep regex).
Multiple tar
archive filenames can be specified - they will each be
processed in turn.
options
--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.
--ignore-case
(alias -i)
Make pattern matching
case-insensitive.
--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.
--verbose
(alias -v)
Log debugging info to
STDERR .
--help
(alias -?)
Display this documentation.
copyright
Copyright 2010 Grant McLean <grantm[:at:]cpan[:dot:]org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.