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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
5bzcmp, 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
16and
17.I bzdiff
18are used to invoke the
19.I cmp
20or the
21.I diff
22program on bzip2 compressed files. All options specified are passed
23directly to
24.I cmp
25or
26.IR diff "."
27If only 1 file is specified, then the files compared are
28.I file1
29and an uncompressed
30.IR file1 ".bz2."
31If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
32.I cmp
33or
34.IR diff "."
35The exit status from
36.I cmp
37or
38.I diff
39is preserved.
40.SH "SEE ALSO"
41cmp(1), diff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzgrep(1), bzip2(1)
42.SH BUGS
43Messages from the
44.I cmp
45or
46.I diff
47programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified.
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