opensolaris man page for gcmp

CMP(1)								   User Commands							    CMP(1)

NAME
       cmp - compare two files byte by byte

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

DESCRIPTION
       Compare two files byte by byte.

       -b  --print-bytes
	      Print differing bytes.

       -i SKIP	--ignore-initial=SKIP
	      Skip the first SKIP bytes of input.

       -i SKIP1:SKIP2  --ignore-initial=SKIP1:SKIP2

	      Skip the first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and the first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2.

       -l  --verbose
	      Output byte numbers and values of all differing bytes.

       -n LIMIT  --bytes=LIMIT
	      Compare at most LIMIT bytes.

       -s  --quiet  --silent
	      Output nothing; yield exit status only.

       -v  --version
	      Output version info.

       --help Output this help.

       SKIP1  and  SKIP2  are  the number of bytes to skip in each file.  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.

AUTHOR
       Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  You may redistribute copies of this program under the  terms  of  the
       GNU General Public License.  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

SEE ALSO
       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 diff

       should give you access to the complete manual.

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-------------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE	|
       +--------------------+-------------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgnu-diffutils |
       +--------------------+-------------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted	|
       +--------------------+-------------------+
NOTES
       Source for GNU diffutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.

diffutils 2.8.1 						    April 2002								    CMP(1)