Re: Feature Request - CMP

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/02/15 15:57, Tyler Beaver wrote:
> I know this tool is probably note used as much anymore, but perhaps it would 
> be worth adding a flag for overriding the verbose output number system for 
> the values, or at any rate specifying that this output is in octal, and not 
> decimal or hexadecimal.

Currently: offsets are decimal, differing bytes are octal:

  $ cmp -l <(echo 12345678abc) <(echo 12345678bbb)
                    9 141 142
                   11 143 142

This works the same on all unix systems.
What would changing base provide except ambiguity?

thanks,
Pádraig.