How do I compare binary files in Linux?

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Published on 2010-03-29T15:28:57Z Indexed on 2014/06/08 9:30 UTC
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I need to compare two binary files and get the output in the form

<fileoffset-hex> <file1-byte-hex> <file2-byte-hex>

for every different byte. So if file1.bin is

  00 90 00 11

in binary form and file2.bin is

  00 91 00 10

I want to get something like

  00000001 90 91
  00000003 11 10

What is the easiest way to accomplish the goal? Standard tool? Some third-party tool?

(Note: cmp -l should be killed with fire, it uses a decimal system for offsets and octal for bytes.)

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