Is there a way I can diff a gzipped tarball against an existing directory? I would like to be able to do it without extracting the data from the tarball.
diff a gzipped tarball against a directory?
tar;diff;gzip
Mount the tarball as a directory, for example with AVFS. Then use diff -r on the real directory and the point where the tarball is mounted.mountavfsdiff -r ~/.avfs/path/to/foo.tar.gz\# real-directory