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.TH CMP "1" "April 2004" "diffutils 2.8.7" "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.
Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
.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.