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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:33:19 +0000
From:      Peter Lowe <pgl@uk.clara.net>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: od
Message-ID:  <20001126163319.A68842@uk.clara.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001126160836.A6889@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:08:36PM %2B0000
References:  <20001126150107.A68587@uk.clara.net> <20001126160836.A6889@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Nov 26, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:01:07PM +0000, Peter Lowe wrote:
> > so instead I thought I'd point out
> > that there's no proper man page for od(1).
> 
> Define "proper".  On my system, od(1) contains brief information
> explaining that od has been deprecated in favour of hexdump(1).  The
> hexdump man page contains lots of information.
> 
> What do you see?

the same, but I was curious to know what all the options do:

SYNOPSIS
     od [-aBbcDdeFfHhIiLlOovXx] [[+]offset[.][Bb]] file

I came across something that recommended using piping output through od -c
to look for \0 strings. I'm quite happy to use hexdump(1), but how do I tell
what the corresponding option is? I've never used od(1) before and I don't
know what the -c argument does.

I should have included this before, but I'm using FreeBSD 3.4.

regards,

peter lowe.

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