xzdiff

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 files:
  xzdiff {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}
• Compare files, showing the differences side by side:
  xzdiff --side-by-side {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}
• Compare files and report only that they differ (no details on what is different):
  xzdiff --brief {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}
• Compare files and report when the files are the same:
  xzdiff --report-identical-files {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}
• Compare files using paginated results:
  xzdiff --paginate {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}