"Howland Craig D (Craig)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When using od with output formats of 1 or 2 bytes, the printed
> output
> can be wrong, particularly--but not exclusively--with non-printing
Thank you for the report.
However, that is standard and required behavior.
To turn it off, use -v (aka --output-duplicates).
$ printf abbbc |od -aAn -w1
a
b
*
c
$ printf abbbc |od -vaAn -w1
a
b
b
b
c
>From "info coreutils od"
`-v'
`--output-duplicates'
Output consecutive lines that are identical. By default, when two
or more consecutive output lines would be identical, `od' outputs
only the first line, and puts just an asterisk on the following
line to indicate the elision.
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