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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: marenkovdmitriy <at> gmail.com
Cc: 33176 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#33176: cmp bug
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:28:07 +0000

tags 33176 notabug
close 33176
stop

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 3:17 PM Дмитрий Маренков
<marenkovdmitriy <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> cmp 3.6 ver in Ubuntu 18.10
> cmp show byte values larger 255
>
> example output: cmp - l file1.bin file2.bin
>         6 175 374
>         7 204  10
>         8 174 372
>         9 215  31
>        10 201   3
>        11 161 344
>        12 205  13
>        13 176 377

Thanks for the report, but that is the documented behavior:

$ info cmp|grep -B1 -A2 verbose
'-l'
'--verbose'
     Output the (decimal) byte numbers and (octal) values of all
     differing bytes, instead of the default standard output.  Each

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