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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300 |
| commit | cec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9 (patch) | |
| tree | ec8d24147a46b901f215ab3bed6cac17fa0108bc /src/scripts/xzdiff.1 | |
| parent | Fix the preset -3e. (diff) | |
| download | xz-cec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9.tar.xz | |
Major man page updates.
Lots of content was updated on the xz man page.
Technical improvements:
- Start a new sentence on a new line.
- Use fairly short lines.
- Use constant-width font for examples (where supported).
- Some minor cleanups.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some language fixes.
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/scripts/xzdiff.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/scripts/xzdiff.1 b/src/scripts/xzdiff.1 index 318d06fb..d97f3cb8 100644 --- a/src/scripts/xzdiff.1 +++ b/src/scripts/xzdiff.1 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .\" .\" License: GNU GPLv2+ .\" -.TH XZDIFF 1 "2009-07-05" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" +.TH XZDIFF 1 "2010-09-27" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils" .SH NAME xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff \- compare compressed files .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff \- compare compressed files .B lzdiff .RI [ diff_options "] " file1 " [" file2 ] .SH DESCRIPTION -.B xzcmp +.B xzcmp and .B xzdiff invoke @@ -36,22 +36,23 @@ on files compressed with or .BR bzip2 (1). All options specified are passed directly to -.B cmp +.BR cmp (1) or -.BR diff . +.BR diff (1). If only one file is specified, then the files compared are .I file1 (which must have a suffix of a supported compression format) and .I file1 from which the compression format suffix has been stripped. -If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to +If two files are specified, +then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to .BR cmp (1) or .BR diff (1). The exit status from -.B cmp +.BR cmp (1) or -.B diff +.BR diff (1) is preserved. .PP The names |