I am pleased to announce the release of zutils 1.6.
Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of
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.
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, ztest and zupdate.
The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
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
The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/
The sha256sum is:
eb100df09e3ff1af2c2424cf2799946d742f8275ea281118f87ff14ed1b8d73a
zutils-1.6.tar.lz
This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending '.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because
you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742
Changes in version 1.6:
* zcmp now accepts the 'B' suffix in the values of '--ignore-initial'
as in '--ignore-initial=1kB:1234B'.
* The input filename is now shown in more error messages.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to zutils-bug@nongnu.org
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.
--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox
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