diff: [ENHANCEMENT] add option to support compressed files: -z, --compress

Jari Aalto <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:50:51 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Cf. Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/540460
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-13
Severity: wishlist

Please add new option -z, --compress to support compressed files.
An example:

   # locate program's original manual

   $ whereis program
   program: /usr/bin/program /usr/share/man/man1/program.1.gz

   # From a version control checkout, what has changed?

   cd /usr/src/versin-control/program.cvs
   diff -u -z progam.1  /usr/share/man/man1/program.1.gz

Jari