Compare directories recursively (shows names for differing files/directories as well as changes made to files)

Invokes the diff command 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>.
Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

diff --recursive {{path/to/file1}} {{path/to/file2}}

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