| 1 | .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.27.
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| 2 | .TH CMP "1" "April 2002" "diffutils 2.8.1" "User Commands"
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| 3 | .SH NAME
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| 4 | cmp \- compare two files byte by byte
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| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 6 | .B cmp
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| 7 | [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 \fR[\fIFILE2 \fR[\fISKIP1 \fR[\fISKIP2\fR]]]
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| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 9 | Compare two files byte by byte.
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| 10 | .TP
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| 11 | \fB\-b\fR \fB\-\-print\-bytes\fR
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| 12 | Print differing bytes.
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| 13 | .TP
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| 14 | \fB\-i\fR SKIP \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP\fR
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| 15 | Skip the first SKIP bytes of input.
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| 16 | .HP
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| 17 | \fB\-i\fR SKIP1:SKIP2 \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP1\fR:SKIP2
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| 18 | .IP
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| 19 | Skip the first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and the first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2.
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| 20 | .TP
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| 21 | \fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-verbose\fR
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| 22 | Output byte numbers and values of all differing bytes.
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| 23 | .TP
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| 24 | \fB\-n\fR LIMIT \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fILIMIT\fR
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| 25 | Compare at most LIMIT bytes.
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| 26 | .TP
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| 27 | \fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-quiet\fR \fB\-\-silent\fR
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| 28 | Output nothing; yield exit status only.
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| 29 | .TP
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| 30 | \fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
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| 31 | Output version info.
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| 32 | .TP
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| 33 | \fB\-\-help\fR
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| 34 | Output this help.
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| 35 | .PP
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| 36 | SKIP1 and SKIP2 are the number of bytes to skip in each file.
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| 37 | SKIP values may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
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| 38 | kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576,
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| 39 | GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
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| 40 | .PP
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| 41 | If a FILE is `-' or missing, read standard input.
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| 42 | .SH AUTHOR
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| 43 | Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
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| 44 | .SH "REPORTING BUGS"
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| 45 | Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
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| 46 | .SH COPYRIGHT
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| 47 | Copyright \(co 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 48 | .PP
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| 49 | This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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| 50 | You may redistribute copies of this program
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| 51 | under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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| 52 | For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
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| 53 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 54 | The full documentation for
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| 55 | .B cmp
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| 56 | is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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| 57 | .B info
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| 58 | and
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| 59 | .B cmp
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| 60 | programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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| 61 | .IP
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| 62 | .B info diff
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| 63 | .PP
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| 64 | should give you access to the complete manual.
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