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xzdiff — Invokes `diff` on files compressed with `xz`, `lzma`, `gzip`, `bzip2`, `lzop`, or `zstd`. All option

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Problem

How to use the xzdiff command: 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>.

Solution

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}}

Code Snippets

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}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/xzdiff

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