On 2018-08-20, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Grant Edwards >> What do you mean "run it as hd"? >> [... Calling via 'hd' alias makes no difference ...]
> Your system is different from mine, then. No doubt. :) > rosuav@sikorsky:~$ ls -l $(which hd) > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 12 2017 /usr/bin/hd -> hexdump > rosuav@sikorsky:~$ ls -l $(which hexdump) > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27248 Apr 12 2017 /usr/bin/hexdump > > In 'man hexdump', the -C option says: > -C Canonical hex+ASCII display. Display the input offset in hexa‐ > decimal, followed by sixteen space-separated, two column, hexa‐ > decimal bytes, followed by the same sixteen bytes in %_p format > enclosed in ``|'' characters. > > Calling the command hd implies this option. $ hexdump --version hexdump from util-linux 2.32 In 'man hexdump', the -C option says the exact same thing, but without that last sentence. The 'hd' alias implying -C seems to be a BSD thing. It's not mentioned in the official Linux hexdump man page: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/tree/text-utils/hexdump.1 But this page does mention 'hd': https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hexdump&sektion=1 -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I just forgot my whole at philosophy of life!!! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
