BZDIFF(1)

✨ BZDIFF(1) — bzcmp, bzdiff 💖

okay so this is the manual page for bzcmp and bzdiff 🎀 (the manual name is bzcmp, bzdiff, a.k.a. the "compare bzip2 compressed files" tools 🦋), straight out of the General Commands Manual. bestie, these two are literally the tools you reach for when you want to compare bzip2 files without manually unzipping them first 💅

🌸 NAME

bzcmp, bzdiff — compare bzip2 compressed files ✨

🧚 SYNOPSIS

bzcmp [ cmp_options ] file1 [ file2 ]
bzdiff [ diff_options ] file1 [ file2 ]

💜 DESCRIPTION

okay so bzcmp and bzdiff are basically the glam wrappers 💅 that invoke the cmp or the diff program on bzip2 compressed files 🫶 every option you pass gets handed straight through to cmp or diff, no cap. if you only give it 1 file, the files being compared are file1 and an uncompressed copy of it called file1.bz2 🍓 if you give it two files, they get uncompressed if they need to be and then fed into cmp or diff ✨ and the exit status from cmp or diff is preserved, so the result is still the real one 🔥

🎀 SEE ALSO

cmp(1), diff(1), bzmore(1), bzless(1), bzgrep(1), bzip2(1) 🌈

💀 BUGS

⚠️ lowkey the messages from cmp or diff refer to temporary filenames instead of the ones you actually specified 😭 so if the output looks confusing, that's why 🙈

bzdiff's manual page, from BZDIFF(1) in the General Commands Manual 🦋 periodt, bestie, go compare some files and slay 👑🫶