CMP(1) User Commands CMP(1)NAMEcmp - compare two files byte by byte
SYNOPSIScmp [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.
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 permit
ted 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.
diffutils 2.8.1 April 2002 CMP(1)
