xzdiff Command Examples

Invokes diff on files compressed with xz, lzma, gzip, bzip2, lzop, or zstd. All options specified are passed directly to diff. More information: https://manned.org/xzdiff.

• Compare two files:

xzdiff {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

• Compare two files, showing the differences side by side:

xzdiff --side-by-side {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

• Compare two files and report only that they differ (no details on what is different):

xzdiff --brief {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

• Compare two files and report when the files are the same:

xzdiff --report-identical-files {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

• Compare two files using paginated results:

xzdiff --paginate {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}