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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2019-01-04 11:13:03 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2019-01-04 11:13:03 +0000
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parentReleasing debian version 1.7-8. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 1.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.46.1.
-.TH ZTEST "1" "February 2018" "ztest (zutils) 1.7" "User Commands"
+.TH ZTEST "1" "January 2019" "ztest (zutils) 1.8" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
ztest \- verify the integrity of compressed files
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ ztest \- verify the integrity of compressed files
[\fI\,options\/\fR] [\fI\,files\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Ztest verifies the integrity of the specified compressed files.
-Uncompressed files are ignored. If no files are specified, or if a file
-is specified as '\-', the integrity of compressed data read from standard
-input is verified. Data read from standard input must be all in the same
-compression format.
+Uncompressed files are ignored. If a file is specified as '\-', the
+integrity of compressed data read from standard input is verified. Data
+read from standard input must be all in the same compression format.
.PP
-The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
+If no files are specified, recursive searches examine the current
+working directory, and nonrecursive searches read standard input.
+.PP
+The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
.PP
Note that error detection in the xz format is broken. First, some xz
files lack integrity information. Second, not all xz decompressors can
@@ -47,6 +49,9 @@ suppress all messages
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
operate recursively on directories
.TP
+\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-dereference\-recursive\fR
+recursively follow symbolic links
+.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
be verbose (a 2nd \fB\-v\fR gives more)
.TP
@@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ Report bugs to zutils\-bug@nongnu.org
.br
Zutils home page: http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
.SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2018 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+Copyright \(co 2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.