| \"Shamelessly copied from zmore.1 by Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> |
| \"for Debian GNU/Linux |
| .TH BZDIFF 1 |
| .SH NAME |
| bzcmp, bzdiff \- compare bzip2 compressed files |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B bzcmp |
| [ cmp_options ] file1 |
| [ file2 ] |
| .br |
| .B bzdiff |
| [ diff_options ] file1 |
| [ file2 ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .I Bzcmp |
| and |
| .I bzdiff |
| are used to invoke the |
| .I cmp |
| or the |
| .I diff |
| program on bzip2 compressed files. All options specified are passed |
| directly to |
| .I cmp |
| or |
| .IR diff "." |
| If only 1 file is specified, then the files compared are |
| .I file1 |
| and an uncompressed |
| .IR file1 ".bz2." |
| If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to |
| .I cmp |
| or |
| .IR diff "." |
| The exit status from |
| .I cmp |
| or |
| .I diff |
| is preserved. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| cmp(1), diff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzgrep(1), bzip2(1) |
| .SH BUGS |
| Messages from the |
| .I cmp |
| or |
| .I diff |
| programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified. |
