> > it would be nice if diffstat provided a way to work with gzip'd patches, > > as it's pretty common that they come in this flavor (for example, the > > diff.gz files from debian source packages). while it's possible to do > > "zcat foo.gz | diffstat", it'd be a lot nicer if one could do "diffstat > > - -z foo.gz" or similar instead". my RSI-inflicted hands would thank you > > :)
As Thomas already mentioned, diffstat should already do what you ask... can you provide a reproduceable example of this failing? I suppose an explicit option might be useful for filenames without the usual suffix, however, or perhaps to process compressed data through a pipe. But I can't imagine either of these scenarios to be very common, and in any event the workaround is rather straightforward.
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