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User Commands                                              CMP(1)



NAME
     cmp - compare two files byte by byte

SYNOPSIS
     cmp [OPTION]... FILE1 [FILE2 [SKIP1 [SKIP2]]]

DESCRIPTION
     Compare two files byte by byte.

     -b  --print-bytes
          Print differing bytes.

     -i SKIP  --ignore-initial=SKIP
          Skip the first SKIP bytes of input.

     -i SKIP1:SKIP2  --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2

          Skip the first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and the first SKIP2
          bytes of FILE2.

     -l  --verbose
          Output byte numbers and values of all differing bytes.

     -n LIMIT  --bytes=LIMIT
          Compare at most LIMIT bytes.

     -s  --quiet  --silent
          Output nothing; yield exit status only.

     -v  --version
          Output version info.

     --help
          Output this help.

     SKIP1 and SKIP2 are the number of  bytes  to  skip  in  each
     file.   SKIP  values may be followed by the following multi-
     plicative suffixes:   kB  1000,  K  1024,  MB  1,000,000,  M
     1,048,576,  GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for
     T, P, E, Z, Y.

     If a FILE is `-' or  missing,  read  standard  input.   Exit
     status  is  0  if  inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if
     trouble.

AUTHOR
     Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .





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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright cO 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software; see the  source  for  copying  condi-
     tions.   There  is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY
     or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for cmp is maintained  as  a  Texinfo
     manual.  If the info and cmp programs are properly installed
     at your site, the command

          info diff

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     __________________________________________
    |   ATTRIBUTE TYPE   |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
    |____________________|_____________________|_
    | Availability       |  text/gnu-diffutils|
    |____________________|_____________________|_
    | Interface Stability|  Uncommitted       |
    |____________________|____________________|

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    diffutils    is     available     on
     http://opensolaris.org.

























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