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- CMP(1L) 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
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- -_✓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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