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CMP(1)				 User Commands				CMP(1)

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.  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	 GNU  diffutils	  home	 page:
       <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>	 General  help using GNU soft‐
       ware: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT
       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.

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 2.9.19-4065		  April 2010				CMP(1)

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