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@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ Description 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 +compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, +including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files are created. @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ those utilities supporting it. The provided utilities are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep and ztest. The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz. +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 with GNU gzip. Ztest is unique to zutils. @@ -20,6 +21,10 @@ NOTE: Bzip2 and lzip provide well-defined values of exit status, which makes them safe to use with zutils. Gzip and xz may return ambiguous warning values, making them less reliable backends for zutils. +LANGUAGE NOTE: Uncompressed = not compressed = plain data; it may never +have been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which has +undergone the process of decompression. + Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Antonio Diaz Diaz. |