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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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