Manual: lzdiff

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NAME
       xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff - compare compressed files

SYNOPSIS
       xzcmp [option...]  file1 [file2]
       xzdiff ...
       lzcmp ...  (DEPRECATED)
       lzdiff ...  (DEPRECATED)

DESCRIPTION
       xzcmp  and  xzdiff  compare  uncompressed  contents  of two files.  Uncompressed data and options are
       passed to cmp(1) or diff(1) unless --help or --version is specified.

       If both file1 and file2 are specified, they can be uncompressed files or files in formats that xz(1),
       gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzop(1), zstd(1), or lz4(1) can decompress.  The required  decompression  commands
       are  determined	from the filename suffixes of file1 and file2.	A file with an unknown suffix is as‐
       sumed to be either uncompressed or in a format that xz(1) can decompress.

       If only one filename is provided, file1 must have a suffix of a supported compression format and	 the
       name for file2 is assumed to be file1 with the compression format suffix removed.

       The commands lzcmp and lzdiff are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils.  They are dep‐
       recated and will be removed in a future version.

EXIT STATUS
       If  a  decompression  error  occurs,  the  exit	status is 2.  Otherwise the exit status of cmp(1) or
       diff(1) is used.

SEE ALSO
       cmp(1), diff(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), lzop(1), zstd(1), lz4(1)

Tukaani						 2025-03-06					   XZDIFF(1)