[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.14-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.14-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.14-rc1.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
bf39c7695c6b30af9eaee81ffb6b360bc10dd8fc19f4d38fb49900b340694ea5 
zutils-1.14-rc1.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any file given, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used. 
Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files are 
created. Data format is detected by its identifier string (magic bytes), not 
by the file name extension. Empty files are considered uncompressed.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the option '--recursive' is efficient in those 
utilities supporting it.

The utilities provided are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest, and zupdate.
The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip, xz, and zstd.
Zutils uses external compressors. 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

Changes in this version:

  * 'zupdate --recursive --destdir=dir' now keeps the file name component 
following the last slash in directory arguments. For example,
'../a'  recompresses the file ../a/b.gz to dir/a/b.lz, while
'../a/' recompresses the file ../a/b.gz to dir/b.lz.

  * The chapter 'Syntax of command-line arguments' has been added to the 
manual.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.

--
If you know someone who is using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please tell him/her 
about the advantages of switching to lzip. See
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html Thanks