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.TH GZDIFF 1
.SH NAME
gzcmp, gzdiff \- compare compressed files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gzcmp
[ cmp_options ] file1
[ file2 ]
.br
.B gzdiff
[ diff_options ] file1
[ file2 ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I  Gzcmp
and
.I gzdiff
are used to invoke the
.I cmp
or the
.I diff
program on files compressed via
.IR gzip "."
All options specified are passed directly to
.I cmp
or
.IR diff "."
If only 1 file is specified, then the files compared are
.I file1
and an uncompressed
.IR file1 ".gz."
If two files are specified, then they are uncompressed if necessary and fed to
.I cmp
or
.IR diff "."
The exit status from
.I cmp
or
.I diff
is preserved.

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	compress/gzip
=
Stability	Committed
.TE 
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
cmp(1), diff(1), gzmore(1), gzgrep(1), gznew(1), gzforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1)
.SH BUGS
Messages from the
.I cmp
or
.I diff
programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified.


.SH NOTES

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This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.5.tar.gz

Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/.