diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/cmp')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1 b/usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1 index 85df2f9ed00..06fd8f12a36 100644 --- a/usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1 +++ b/usr.bin/cmp/cmp.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: cmp.1,v 1.3 1998/05/26 07:22:21 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: cmp.1,v 1.4 1998/09/23 04:32:37 aaron Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: cmp.1,v 1.4 1995/09/08 03:22:55 tls Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993 @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ .Ar file1 file2 .Op Ar skip1 Op Ar skip2 .Sh DESCRIPTION -The cmp utility compares two files of any type and writes the results +The +.Nm cmp +utility compares two files of any type and writes the results to the standard output. By default, .Nm @@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ are the byte offsets from the beginning of and .Ar file2 , respectively, where the comparison will begin. -The offset is decimal by default, but may be expressed as an hexadecimal +The offset is decimal by default, but may be expressed as a hexadecimal or octal value by preceding it with a leading ``0x'' or ``0''. .Pp The |