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authorbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-14 16:54:59 +0000
committerbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>2000-07-14 16:54:59 +0000
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Add the -z flag to check file sizes first
Correct the cmp.1 usage message Correct the -l/-s incompatibility message Submitted by: Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org>
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diff --git a/usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1 b/usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1
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@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
.Nd compare two files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm cmp
-.Op Fl l | Fl s
+.Op Fl l | Fl s | Fl x
+.Op Fl z
.Ar file1 file2
.Op Ar skip1 Op Ar skip2
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -71,6 +72,9 @@ Like
.Fl l
but prints in hexadecimal and using zero as index
for the first byte in the files.
+.It Fl z
+For regular files compare file sizes first, and fail the comparison if they
+are not equal.
.El
.Pp
The optional arguments
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