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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2003-01-26 00:43:02 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2003-01-26 00:43:02 +0000
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+.\" $NetBSD: cmp.1,v 1.1.1.1 2003/01/26 00:43:17 wiz Exp $
+.\"
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.27.
+.TH CMP "1" "April 2002" "diffutils 2.8.1" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+cmp \- compare two files byte by byte
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B cmp
+[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 \fR[\fIFILE2 \fR[\fISKIP1 \fR[\fISKIP2\fR]]]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Compare two files byte by byte.
+.TP
+\fB\-b\fR \fB\-\-print\-bytes\fR
+Print differing bytes.
+.TP
+\fB\-i\fR SKIP \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP\fR
+Skip the first SKIP bytes of input.
+.HP
+\fB\-i\fR SKIP1:SKIP2 \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP1\fR:SKIP2
+.IP
+Skip the first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and the first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2.
+.TP
+\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+Output byte numbers and values of all differing bytes.
+.TP
+\fB\-n\fR LIMIT \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fILIMIT\fR
+Compare at most LIMIT bytes.
+.TP
+\fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-quiet\fR \fB\-\-silent\fR
+Output nothing; yield exit status only.
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
+Output version info.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+Output this help.
+.PP
+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.
+.PP
+If a FILE is `-' or missing, read standard input.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.PP
+This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted 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.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+The full documentation for
+.B cmp
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
+.B info
+and
+.B cmp
+programs are properly installed at your site, the command
+.IP
+.B info diff
+.PP
+should give you access to the complete manual.