[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.6-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.6-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.6-rc1.tar.lz

The sha1sum is:
2f7560b178013bd5b1b1f6d2e0bee36bb67b57e0  zutils-1.6-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to deal with any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is 
used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files 
are created.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the "--recursive" option is very efficient in 
those utilities supporting it.

The provided utilities are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest and zupdate.
The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
Zutils uses external compressors. The compressor to be used for each 
format is configurable at runtime.

zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell 
scripts provided by GNU gzip. ztest is unique to zutils. zupdate is 
similar to gzip's znew.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html


Changes in this version:

  * zcmp now accepts the 'B' suffix in the values of '--ignore-initial' 
as in '--ignore-initial=1kB:1234B'.

  * The input file name is now shown in more error messages.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.

--
If you are distributing software compressed with xz, please consider 
using lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html 
and http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox