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NAME

       cmp - compare two files byte by byte

SYNOPSIS

       cmp [OPTION]... FILE1 [FILE2 [SKIP1 [SKIP2]]]

DESCRIPTION

       Compare two files byte by byte.

       The optional SKIP1 and SKIP2 specify the number of bytes to skip at the beginning of each file (zero by default).

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -b, --print-bytes
	      print differing bytes

       -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP
	      skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs

       -i, --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2
	      skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2

       -l, --verbose
	      output byte numbers and differing byte values

       -n, --bytes=LIMIT
	      compare at most LIMIT bytes

       -s, --quiet, --silent
	      suppress all normal output

       --help display this help and exit

       -v, --version
	      output version information and exit

       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.

       If a FILE is `-' or missing, read standard input.  Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.

AUTHOR

       Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
       GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       diff(1), diff3(1), sdiff(1)

       The full documentation for cmp is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and cmp programs are properly installed at  your	site,  the
       command

	      info cmp

       should give you access to the complete manual.

diffutils 3.2							  September 2011							    CMP(1)