[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.7 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of zutils 1.7.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process 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 utilities provided are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest and zupdate.
The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip and xz.
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:
c4ffadab70458fab8f1fe51b003f953c590d95e060658105622144bdd93ba650 
zutils-1.7.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 --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 8FE99503132D7742

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


Changes in version 1.7:

  * zgrep now passes the '--color' option to grep. (But it only works 
if the grep program used supports it).


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.

--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
lzip instead. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1 and 
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html