[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.11-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.11-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.11-pre1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
f0a46c5b4882f6e6f7ca6d289d3d869b32c114606d18b1f2fae7a9efc685141f 
zutils-1.11-pre1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any file given, 
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 option "--recursive" is very efficient in those 
utilities supporting it.

The utilities provided are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest, and zupdate.
The formats supported 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:

  * 'zdiff --verbose --version' now prints the version of the diff program 
used (if it supports the option '--version').

  * 'zgrep --verbose --version' now prints the version of the grep program 
used (if it supports the option '--version').

  * It has been documented in the manual how to recompress files with 
zupdate from a read-only file system to another place by first linking the 
files from the destination directory and then compressing the links:
  'ln -s /src/foo.gz . && zupdate foo.gz'


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using 
lzip. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.