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.sh NAME
cmp \*- compare two files
.sh SYNOPSIS
.bd cmp
file1 file2
.sh DESCRIPTION
The two files are
compared for identical contents.
Discrepancies are noted
by giving the offset and the differing words,
all in octal.
.sh "SEE ALSO"
proof (I), comm (I)
.sh BUGS
If
the shorter of the two files is of odd length,
.it cmp
acts as if a null byte had been appended to it.
The
.it offset
is only a single-precision number.

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