ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive

       Copyright 2010 Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  Perl
       itself.

perl v5.40.1                                       2025-04-14                                        PTARGREP(1)

       This utility allows you to apply pattern matching to thecontents 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.

       ptargrep - Apply pattern matching to the contents of files in a tar archive

--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.

         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