[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.12-pre2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.12-pre2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.12-pre2.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
99cbb7d0c972cbb881de7b8ff4cff2e708a53979298e01fe7eec4d79dbd53988 
zutils-1.12-pre2.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, xz, and zstd.
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:

  * zgrep now accepts the option '-Z, --null'. (Reported by Leah Neukirchen).

  * zupdate now accepts option '-e, --expand-extensions', which makes it 
expand combined file name extensions; tgz -> tar.lz.

  * zupdate now accepts option '-i, --ignore-errors', which makes it ignore 
non-fatal errors (file not found or not regular, or has invalid format, or 
can't be deleted).

  * All utilities now support compress'd (.Z) files through gzip. For this 
to work, the gzip program used (for example GNU gzip) must be able to 
decompress .Z files.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.

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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
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