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- CMP(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES CMP(1L)
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- NAME
- cmp - compare two files
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- SYNOPSIS
- cmp [-cls] [--show-chars] [--verbose] [--silent] [--quiet]
- file1 [file2]
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of cmp. cmp com-
- pares the two given files, and if they differ, tells the
- first byte and line number where they differ. The file name
- `-' is always the standard input. If one file name is omit-
- ted, the standard input is used as well.
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- It exits with the value
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- 0 The files are identical.
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- 1 The files differ.
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- 2 An error occurred.
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- OPTIONS
- -_c, --_s_h_o_w-_c_h_a_r_s
- Print the differing characters like `cat -t' (except
- that newlines are printed as `^J').
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- -_l, --_v_e_r_b_o_s_e
- Print the (decimal) offsets and (octal) values of all
- differing bytes.
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- -_s, --_s_i_l_e_n_t, --_q_u_i_e_t
- Do not print anything; only return an exit status indi-
- cating whether the files differ.
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- The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as
- `--', for compatibility with previous releases. Eventually
- support for `+' will be removed, because it is incompatible
- with the POSIX.2 standard.
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