xzdiff
Invokes diff
on files compressed with xz
, lzma
, gzip
, bzip2
, lzop
, or zstd
.
All options specified are passed directly to diff
.
More information: https://manned.org/xzdiff.
- Compare two files:
xzdiff
path/to/file1
path/to/file2
- Compare two files, showing the differences side by side:
xzdiff --side-by-side
path/to/file1
path/to/file2
- Compare two files and report only that they differ (no details on what is different):
xzdiff --brief
path/to/file1
path/to/file2
- Compare two files and report when the files are the same:
xzdiff --report-identical-files
path/to/file1
path/to/file2
- Compare two files using paginated results:
xzdiff --paginate
path/to/file1
path/to/file2