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 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.
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org Report Mandriva Linux bugs to:
http://qa.mandriva.com GNU diffutils home page:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/> General help using GNU soft‐
ware: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Packaged by Mandriva Linux Copyright (C) 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.
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 com‐
mand
info diff
should give you access to the complete manual.
diffutils 2.9 February 2010 CMP(1)
