cmp
(1g)
Name
cmp - compare two files byte by byte
Synopsis
cmp [OPTION]... FILE1 [FILE2 [SKIP1 [SKIP2]]]
Description
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 sta-
tus is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trou-
ble.
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | text/gnu-diffutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
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.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.8.7.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/diffutils/.
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