One of my favorite discoveries as well! I sometimes (rarely) compare archives with: diff <(tar tzf f1.tgz) <(tar tzf f2.tgz) Or diffs of diffs: diff

One of my favorite discoveries as well! I sometimes (rarely) compare archives with: diff <(tar tzf f1.tgz) <(tar tzf f2.tgz) Or diffs of diffs: diff <(git diff --cached) the-patch-alice-proposed