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xzdiff

Invoke diff on files compressed with xz, lzma, gzip, bzip2, lzop, or zstd. tldr-pages

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Invoke diff on files compressed with xz, lzma, gzip, bzip2, lzop, or zstd. All options specified are passed directly to diff.

Compare two files

xzdiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2Identify

Compare two files, showing the differences side by side

xzdiff --side-by-side path/to/file1 path/to/file2Identify

Compare two files and report only that they differ (no details on what is different)

xzdiff --brief path/to/file1 path/to/file2Identify

Compare two files and report when the files are the same

xzdiff --report-identical-files path/to/file1 path/to/file2Identify

Compare two files using paginated results

xzdiff --paginate path/to/file1 path/to/file2Identify