On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Probably TITTTL material, but...
> Now, I'd certainly agree that short int is a strange default for od (as
> indeed is octal, which it defaults to if you don't specify a base
> explicitly);
Why would octal be a strange default for a program called "octal d
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>From: Fergus Daly
>Sent: 28 June 2005 15:45
>
> ("od -x .." outputs the strange transposition of bytes that you have
> referred to.)
It's not a 'transposition of bytes'. It's not bytes at all; "od -x"
defaults to reading 16-bit short integers, and outputs them in hos
>> Exactly the other way round ...
~> echo abcd | od -tx1
000 61 62 63 64 0a
005
is nice; and, for some purposes
~> echo abcd | od -An -tx1
61 62 63 64 0a
(or "od -An -tx1 ") is nicer still.
("od -x .." outputs the strange transposition of bytes
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According to Andreas Eibach on 6/28/2005 7:36 AM:
> Well, looks like a feature or a bug. :))
Feature.
>
> $ ls -hog CD0.dat
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 14:46 CD0.dat
> (minus r; w minus; r minus; minus r; minus minus)
>
>
> and now ...
>
> $ ls
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