@(#)cmp.1 5.1 (Berkeley) 04/29/85

.AT 3 cmp - compare two files cmp [ -l ] [ -s ] file1 file2 The two files are compared. (If file1 is `-', the standard input is used.) Under default options, cmp makes no comment if the files are the same; if they differ, it announces the byte and line number at which the difference occurred. If one file is an initial subsequence of the other, that fact is noted.

Options:

6 -l Print the byte number (decimal) and the differing bytes (octal) for each difference.

6 -s Print nothing for differing files; return codes only. .dt

diff(1), comm(1) Exit code 0 is returned for identical files, 1 for different files, and 2 for an inaccessible or missing argument.