CMP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 2010
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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 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.  

AUTHOR

Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.  

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.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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