Re: diff on .gz and .bz2 files

[Colin S. Miller]

Peng Yu wrote:
> It seems that diff can not do comparison on the decompressed files in
> .gz and .bz2 files. I could first decompress the .gz and .bz2 file and
> then do the comparison. But it would be convenient to be able to
> directly compare without explicitly decompressing any files. Could
> somebody add this feature to diff?
Peng,

The utils "zdiff" and "bzdiff" will do this.
HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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