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