Archive::Ar

Interface for manipulating ar archives

INSTALL

The usual way

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SYNOPSIS

use Archive::Ar;

my $ar = Archive::Ar->new;

$ar->read('./foo.ar');
$ar->extract;

$ar->add_files('./bar.tar.gz', 'bat.pl')
$ar->add_data('newfile.txt','Some contents');

$ar->chmod('file1', 0644);
$ar->chown('file1', $uid, $gid);

$ar->remove('file1', 'file2');

my $filehash = $ar->get_content('bar.tar.gz');
my $data = $ar->get_data('bar.tar.gz');
my $handle = $ar->get_handle('bar.tar.gz');

my @files = $ar->list_files();

my $archive = $ar->write;
my $size = $ar->write('outbound.ar');

$ar->error();

DESCRIPTION

Archive::Ar is a pure-perl way to handle standard ar archives.

This is useful if you have those types of archives on the system, but it is also useful because .deb packages for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution are ar archives. This is one building block in a future chain of modules to build, manipulate, extract, and test debian modules with no platform or architecture dependence.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2009-2014 John Bazik jbazik@cpan.org.

Copyright 2003 Jay Bonci jaybonci@cpan.org.

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

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html