zdiff - decompress and compare two files line by line
zdiff [options] file1 [file2]
Zdiff compares two files ('-' means standard input), and if they
differ, shows the differences line by line. If any given file is compressed,
its decompressed content is used. Zdiff is a front end to the diff program
and has the limitation that messages from diff refer to temporary filenames
instead of those specified.
The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
Zdiff compares file1 to file2. If file2 is omitted zdiff tries the
following:
- 1. If file1 is compressed, compares its decompressed contents with the
corresponding uncompressed file (the name of file1 with the extension
removed).
- 2. If file1 is uncompressed, compares it with the decompressed contents of
file1.[lz|bz2|gz|xz] (the first one that is found).
- 3. If no suitable file is found, compares file1 with data read from
standard input.
Exit status is 0 if inputs are identical, 1 if different, 2 if
trouble.
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -V, --version
- output version information and exit
- -a, --text
- treat all files as text
- -b,
--ignore-space-change
- ignore changes in the amount of white space
- -B,
--ignore-blank-lines
- ignore changes whose lines are all blank
- -c
- use the context output format
- -C,
--context=<n>
- same as -c but use <n> lines of context
- -d, --minimal
- try hard to find a smaller set of changes
- -E,
--ignore-tab-expansion
- ignore changes due to tab expansion
- -i,
--ignore-case
- ignore case differences in file contents
- -M,
--format=<list>
- process only the formats in <list>
- -N,
--no-rcfile
- don't read runtime configuration file
- -O,
--force-format=[<f1>][,<f2>]
- force given formats (bz2, gz, lz, xz)
- -p,
--show-c-function
- show which C function each change is in
- -q, --brief
- output only whether files differ
- -s,
--report-identical-files
- report when two files are identical
- -t,
--expand-tabs
- expand tabs to spaces in output
- -T,
--initial-tab
- make tabs line up by prepending a tab
- -u
- use the unified output format
- -U,
--unified=<n>
- same as -u but use <n> lines of context
- -w,
--ignore-all-space
- ignore all white space
- --bz2=<command>
- set compressor and options for bzip2 format
- --gz=<command>
- set compressor and options for gzip format
- --lz=<command>
- set compressor and options for lzip format
- --xz=<command>
- set compressor and options for xz format
Report bugs to zutils-bug@nongnu.org
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
Copyright © 2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL
version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.