[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of zutils 1.2.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to deal with 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.
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

The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/

The sha1sum is:
5ceac4e27a105920ae2f2b1311720832e8e21d22  zutils-1.2.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.2:

  * The new utility zupdate, which recompresses bzip2, gzip and xz 
files to lzip format, has been added.

  * The zutils executable has been removed. All utilities are now 
independent executables.

  * The exit status of zgrep should now be identical to that of grep.

  * "zutils.texinfo" has been renamed to "zutils.texi".


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.