[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.9-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.9-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.9-rc2.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
a1ede98b9105ead2d8bb15b5eb360f21f9b762754dd36706e5894429516cbee9 
zutils-1.9-rc2.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find. This is planned to be the last 
release candidate before 1.9 stable.

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.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the option "--recursive" 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


Changes in this version:

  * zupdate now puts single quotes around file names when calling zcmp to 
allow file names with spaces.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about long-term archiving, please help me replace xz with lzip. 
See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.