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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1987 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)cmp.1       6.2 (Berkeley) 11/18/87
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH CMP 1 "November 18, 1987"
        !             8: .AT 3
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: cmp \- compare two files
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B cmp
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-l
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B \-s
        !            17: ] file1 file2 [ skip1 ] [ skip2 ]
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: The two files are compared.  (If \fIfile1\fP is `\-', the standard
        !            20: input is used.)  With no options, \fIcmp\fP makes no comment if the
        !            21: files are the same; if they differ, it reports the byte and line
        !            22: number at which the difference occurred, or, that one file is an
        !            23: initial subsequence of the other.  \fISkip1\fP and \fIskip2\fP are
        !            24: initial byte offsets into \fIfile1\fP and \fIfile2\fP respectively,
        !            25: and may be either octal or decimal; a leading ``0'' denotes octal.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: Options:
        !            28: .TP 6
        !            29: .B \-s
        !            30: Print nothing for differing files; set exit codes only.
        !            31: .TP 6
        !            32: .B \-l
        !            33: Print the byte number (in decimal) and the differing bytes (in octal)
        !            34: for all differences between the two files.
        !            35: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            36: diff(1), comm(1)
        !            37: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            38: Exit code 0 is returned for identical files, 1 for different files,
        !            39: and 2 for an inaccessible or missing argument, or a system error.

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