64 lines
1.9 KiB
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64 lines
1.9 KiB
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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.33.
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.TH CMP "1" "April 2004" "diffutils 2.8.7" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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cmp \- compare two files byte by byte
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B cmp
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 \fR[\fIFILE2 \fR[\fISKIP1 \fR[\fISKIP2\fR]]]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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Compare two files byte by byte.
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.TP
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\fB\-b\fR \fB\-\-print\-bytes\fR
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Print differing bytes.
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.TP
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\fB\-i\fR SKIP \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP\fR
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Skip the first SKIP bytes of input.
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.HP
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\fB\-i\fR SKIP1:SKIP2 \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP1\fR:SKIP2
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.IP
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Skip the first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and the first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2.
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.TP
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\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-verbose\fR
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Output byte numbers and values of all differing bytes.
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.TP
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\fB\-n\fR LIMIT \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fILIMIT\fR
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Compare at most LIMIT bytes.
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.TP
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\fB\-s\fR \fB\-\-quiet\fR \fB\-\-silent\fR
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Output nothing; yield exit status only.
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.TP
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\fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
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Output version info.
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.TP
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\fB\-\-help\fR
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Output this help.
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.PP
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SKIP1 and SKIP2 are the number of bytes to skip in each file.
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SKIP values may be followed by the following multiplicative suffixes:
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kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576,
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GB 1,000,000,000, G 1,073,741,824, and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y.
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.PP
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If a FILE is `-' or missing, read standard input.
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Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie.
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.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
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Report bugs to <bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org>.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright \(co 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.br
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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
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warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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The full documentation for
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.B cmp
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is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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.B info
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and
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.B cmp
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programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.IP
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.B info diff
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.PP
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should give you access to the complete manual.
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