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Options to `cmp'
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   Below is a summary of all of the options that GNU `cmp' accepts.
Most options have two equivalent names, one of which is a single letter
preceded by `-', and the other of which is a long name preceded by
`--'.  Multiple single letter options (unless they take an argument)
can be combined into a single command line word: `-cl' is equivalent to
`-c -l'.

`-c'
     Print the differing characters.  Display control characters as a
     `^' followed by a letter of the alphabet and precede characters
     that have the high bit set with `M-' (which stands for "meta").

`--ignore-initial=BYTES'
     Ignore any differences in the the first BYTES bytes of the input
     files.  Treat files with fewer than BYTES bytes as if they are
     empty.

`-l'
     Print the (decimal) byte numbers and (octal) values of all
     differing bytes.

`--print-chars'
     Print the differing characters.  Display control characters as a
     `^' followed by a letter of the alphabet and precede characters
     that have the high bit set with `M-' (which stands for "meta").

`--quiet'
`-s'
`--silent'
     Do not print anything; only return an exit status indicating
     whether the files differ.

`--verbose'
     Print the (decimal) byte numbers (starting at 1) and (octal)
     values of all differing bytes.

`-v'

`--version'
     Output the version number of `cmp'.