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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2010-09-27 23:29:34 +0300
commitcec0ddc8ec4ce81685a51998b978e22167e461f9 (patch)
treeec8d24147a46b901f215ab3bed6cac17fa0108bc /src/scripts/xzdiff.1
parentFix the preset -3e. (diff)
downloadxz-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.
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-rw-r--r--src/scripts/xzdiff.115
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