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>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xzdiff.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install xz-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install xz-utils
Alpine
apk add xz
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S xz
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install xz-utils
CentOS
yum install xz
Fedora
dnf install xz
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xz-utils
OS X
brew install xz
Raspbian
apt-get install xz-utils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/xzdiff
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/xzdiff xzdiff powered by Commando

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 files:
    xzdiff path/to/file1 path/to/file2
  • Compare files, showing the differences side by side:
    xzdiff --side-by-side path/to/file1 path/to/file2
  • Compare files and report only that they differ (no details on what is different):
    xzdiff --brief path/to/file1 path/to/file2
  • Compare files and report when the files are the same:
    xzdiff --report-identical-files path/to/file1 path/to/file2
  • Compare files using paginated results:
    xzdiff --paginate path/to/file1 path/to/file2

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