DIRCMP(1)							     DIRCMP(1)

NAME
       dircmp - directory comparison

SYNOPSIS
       dircmp [-ds] [-w n] dir1 dir2

DESCRIPTION
       The  dircmp  command examines dir1 and dir2 and generates various tabu‐
       lated information about the contents of the  directories.  Listings  of
       files  that  are	 unique	 to  each  directory are generated for all the
       options.	 If no option is entered, a list is output indicating  whether
       the file names common to both directories have the same contents.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -d
	       Compares	 the  contents	of  files  with	 the same name in both
	       directories and output a list telling what must be  changed  in
	       the  two files to bring them into agreement. The list format is
	       described in diff(1).

       -s
	       Suppresses messages about identical files.

       -w n
	       Changes the width of the	 output	 line  to  n  characters.  The
	       default width is	 72.

OPERANDS
       The following operands are supported:

       dir1
       dir2
	       A path name of a directory to be compared.

USAGE
       See  largefile(5)  for  the  description of the behavior of dircmp when
       encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment  variables
       that affect the execution of dircmp: LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES,
       and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0
	     Successful completion.

       >0
	     An error occurred. (Differences in	 directory  contents  are  not
	     considered errors.)

SEE ALSO
       cmp(1), diff(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)

				  Feb 1, 1995			     DIRCMP(1)

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