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  1. \"Shamelessly copied from zmore.1 by Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
  2. \"for Debian GNU/Linux
  3. .TH BZDIFF 1
  4. .SH NAME
  5. bzcmp, bzdiff \- compare bzip2 compressed files
  6. .SH SYNOPSIS
  7. .B bzcmp
  8. [ cmp_options ] file1
  9. [ file2 ]
  10. .br
  11. .B bzdiff
  12. [ diff_options ] file1
  13. [ file2 ]
  14. .SH DESCRIPTION
  15. .I Bzcmp
  16. and
  17. .I bzdiff
  18. are used to invoke the
  19. .I cmp
  20. or the
  21. .I diff
  22. program on bzip2 compressed files. All options specified are passed
  23. directly to
  24. .I cmp
  25. or
  26. .IR diff "."
  27. If only 1 file is specified, then the files compared are
  28. .I file1
  29. and an uncompressed
  30. .IR file1 ".bz2."
  31. If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
  32. .I cmp
  33. or
  34. .IR diff "."
  35. The exit status from
  36. .I cmp
  37. or
  38. .I diff
  39. is preserved.
  40. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  41. cmp(1), diff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzgrep(1), bzip2(1)
  42. .SH BUGS
  43. Messages from the
  44. .I cmp
  45. or
  46. .I diff
  47. programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified.