[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.15 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of zutils 1.15.

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

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

The sha256sum is:
05e6b03f333eabd78a1055139557e8ada6b634f1a58e8501f3b8f111a705cb87 
zutils-1.15.tar.lz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending 
'.sig' to the URL. If the 'gpg --verify' command fails because you don't 
have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

  gpg --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

Key fingerprint = 1D41 C14B 272A 2219 A739  FA4F 8FE9 9503 132D 7742


Changes in version 1.15:

  * The new option '-x, --exclude' has been added to zcat, ztest, and zupdate.
    The new option '--exclude' has been added to zgrep.
    It excludes files matching a shell pattern (for example '*.o').

  * zgrep now exits with status 2 if a write error happens on stdout.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to zutils-bug@nongnu.org


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