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diff --git a/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/cmp.1 b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/cmp.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a9ea06a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/mageia-cauldron/man1/cmp.1 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.40.4. +.TH CMP "1" "May 2023" "diffutils 3.10" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +cmp \- compare two files byte by byte +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B cmp +[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIFILE1 \fR[\fIFILE2 \fR[\fISKIP1 \fR[\fISKIP2\fR]]] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Compare two files byte by byte. +.PP +The optional SKIP1 and SKIP2 specify the number of bytes to skip +at the beginning of each file (zero by default). +.PP +Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. +.TP +\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-print\-bytes\fR +print differing bytes +.TP +\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP\fR +skip first SKIP bytes of both inputs +.TP +\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-initial\fR=\fISKIP1\fR:SKIP2 +skip first SKIP1 bytes of FILE1 and +first SKIP2 bytes of FILE2 +.TP +\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR +output byte numbers and differing byte values +.TP +\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fILIMIT\fR +compare at most LIMIT bytes +.TP +\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR +suppress all normal output +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR +display this help and exit +.TP +\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR +output version information and exit +.PP +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. +.PP +If a FILE is '\-' or missing, read standard input. +Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble. +.SH AUTHOR +Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie. +.SH "REPORTING BUGS" +Report bugs to: bug\-diffutils@gnu.org +.br +GNU diffutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/> +.br +General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. +.br +This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. +There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR diff (1), +.BR diff3 (1), +.BR sdiff (1) +.PP +The full documentation for +.B cmp +is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the +.B info +and +.B cmp +programs are properly installed at your site, the command +.IP +.B info cmp +.PP +should give you access to the complete manual. |