Manual page for CMP(1L)
cmp - compare two files
SYNOPSIS
cmp
[-cls] [--show-chars] [--verbose] [--silent] [--quiet] file1 [file2]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
cmp.
cmp
compares the two given files, and if they differ, tells the first
byte and line number where they differ. The file name `-' is always
the standard input. If one file name is omitted, the standard input
is used as well.
It exits with the value
- 0
-
The files are identical.
- 1
-
The files differ.
- 2
-
An error occurred.
OPTIONS
- -c, --show-chars
-
Print the differing characters like `cat -t' (except that newlines are
printed as `^J').
- -l, --verbose
-
Print the (decimal) offsets and (octal) values of all differing bytes.
- -s, --silent, --quiet
-
Do not print anything; only return an exit status indicating whether
the files differ.
The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as `--',
for compatibility with previous releases. Eventually support for `+'
will be removed, because it is incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
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Last modified 11/5/97
