[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.7-pre1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.7-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.7-pre1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
611613ef0e5b0a18e4b4dd4a511b6b85ce70cbb4b1e6f47e0231898dc6d782eb 
zutils-1.7-pre1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is 
used. Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files 
are created.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the "--recursive" option is very efficient in 
those utilities supporting it.

The provided utilities are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest and zupdate.
The supported formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
Zutils uses external compressors. The compressor to be used for each 
format is configurable at runtime.

zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell 
scripts provided by GNU gzip. ztest is unique to zutils. zupdate is 
similar to gzip's znew.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html


Changes in this version:

  * zgrep now passes the '--color' option to grep. (But it only works 
if the grep program used supports it).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.

--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html , 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1 and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox