NAME

       gem2tgz - converts Rubygems' .gem file into tarballs

SYNOPSIS

       gem2tgz [OPTIONS] GEMNAME [TARBALL] (to download the gem with gem fetch)

       gem2tgz [OPTIONS] GEMFILE [TARBALL] (to use a local .gem file)

DESCRIPTION

       gem2tgz will convert the .gem file GEM into a tarball named TARBALL.  If TARBALL is
       omitted, gem2tgz will try to guess the filename for the tarball by taking GEM and
       replacing '.gem' with '.tar.gz'.

SEE ALSO

       gem2deb(1)

COPYRIGHT AND AUTHORS

       Copyright (c) 2010, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org>

       This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
       version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.
       If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

                                            2021-12-06                                 GEM2TGZ(1)