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cmp − compare two files byte by byte
cmp [OPTION]... FILE1 [FILE2 [SKIP1 [SKIP2]]]
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 multiplicative 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.
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
Report bugs to: bug−diffutils@gnu.org GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Copyright
© 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and
redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by law.
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.
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