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@@ -4,15 +4,20 @@ Zutils is a collection of utilities able to deal with any combination of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. If any given file, including standard input, is compressed, its uncompressed 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. +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 and ztest. -The supported compressors are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz. +The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz. + +Zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell +scripts provided with GNU gzip. Ztest is unique to zutils. -Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. |