Zutils

Introduction

Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. The supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip and xz.

The currently provided utilities are:
Zcat - Decompresses and copies files to standard output.
Zcmp - Decompresses and compares files with Cmp.
Zdiff - Decompresses and compares files with Diff.
Zgrep - Decompresses and searches inside files with Grep.
Zegrep - Decompresses and searches inside files with Egrep.
Zfgrep - Decompresses and searches inside files with Fgrep.
Ztest - Tests integrity of compressed files.

Download

The latest released version of zutils can be found here. You may also subscribe to Freshmeat and receive an email every time a new version is released.

How to Get Help

An online manual for zutils can be found here.

For general discussion of bugs in zutils the mailing list zutils-bug@nongnu.org is the most appropriate forum. Please send messages as plain text. Please do not send messages encoded as HTML nor encoded as base64 MIME nor included as multiple formats. Please include a descriptive subject line. If all of the subject are "bug in zutils" it is impossible to differentiate them.

An archive of the bug report mailing list is available at http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/zutils-bug.

How to Help

To contact the author, either to report a bug or to contribute fixes or improvements, send mail to zutils-bug@nongnu.org. Please send messages as plain text. If posting patches they should be in unified diff format against the latest version. They should include a text description.

See also the zutils project page at Savannah.

You are free to copy, modify and distribute all or part of this article without limitation.

Updated: 2009/10/31