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Options to cmp

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) offsets 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) offsets and (octal) values of all differing bytes.
`-v'
`--version'
Output the version number of cmp.


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