Command Line Interface

zbsdiff provides two command-line utilities for BSDIFF40-compatible patches.

You can install zbsdiff binaries using Zoi:

zoi install @zillowe/zbsdiff

Or install it from Crates.io:

cargo install --locked zbsdiff-cli

zbsdiff

Used to create a patch between a source file and a target file.

./zbsdiff <SOURCE> <TARGET> <PATCH> [OPTIONS]

Options:

• -P, --no-parallel: Disable parallel searching.
• -c <BYTES>, --chunk-size <BYTES>: Set parallel target chunk size. Values below 256 KiB are raised to 256 KiB. Cannot be combined with --no-parallel.
• -z <LEVEL>, --compress-level <LEVEL>: Set bzip2 compression level (0-9; default: 6).
• -s <BYTES>, --small-match <BYTES>: Skip exact matches no longer than this value (default: 12).
• -b <BYTES>, --buffer-size <BYTES>: Set delta calculation buffer size (minimum: 128).

Use - for one input or the output to use standard input or standard output. The source and target cannot both be standard input.

zbspatch

Used to apply a patch to a source file to recreate the target file.

./zbspatch <SOURCE> <TARGET> <PATCH> [OPTIONS]

Options:

• -b <BYTES>, --buffer-size <BYTES>: Set write buffer size (minimum: 128).

Use - for one input or the output to use standard input or standard output. The source and patch cannot both be standard input. Invalid patches, including patches whose controls do not produce their declared target size, are rejected.