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- reworded example descriptions for clarity and explicitness
- changed order and content of examples, to introduce options gradually
- formatted all user-selectable parts (option values and arguments) in the token markup
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Waldir Pimenta 2017-04-15 11:15:32 +01:00 committed by Agniva De Sarker
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# od
> Display file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or printable character format.
> Optionally display the byte offsets into the file.
> Display file contents in octal, decimal or hexadecimal format.
> Optionally display the byte offsets and/or printable representation for each line.
- Display file in octal format 8 bytes per line with the byte offsets in octal as well replacing duplicate lines with `*`:
- Display file using default settings: octal format, 8 bytes per line, byte offsets in octal, and duplicate lines replaced with `*`:
`od {{/path/to/file}}`
`od {{path/to/file}}`
- Display file in hexadecimal format with byte offsets in hexadecimal, 4 bytes per line with each entry 1 byte long:
- Display file in verbose mode, i.e. without replacing duplicate lines with `*`:
`od --address-radix=x --format=x1 --width=4 -v {{/path/to/file}}`
`od -v {{path/to/file}}`
- Display only printable strings of at least 5 characters long in the file along with the byte offsets in hexadecimal:
- Display file in hexadecimal format (2-byte units), with byte offsets in decimal format:
`od --address-radix=x --string=5 -v {{/path/to/file}}`
`od --format={{x}} --address-radix={{d}} -v {{path/to/file}}`
- Read only given number of first bytes of a file and display it in the hexadecimal format:
- Display file in hexadecimal format (1-byte units), and 4 bytes per line:
`od --address-radix=x --format=x --read-bytes 100 -v {{/path/to/file}}`
`od --format={{x1}} --width={{4}} -v {{path/to/file}}`
- Display file in hexadecimal format along with its character representation, also do not print byte offsets:
- Display file in hexadecimal format along with its character representation, and do not print byte offsets:
`od --address-radix=n --format=xz -v {{/path/to/file}}`
`od --format={{xz}} --address-radix={{n}} -v {{path/to/file}}`
- Read only 100 bytes of a file starting from the 500th byte:
`od --read-bytes {{100}} --skip-bytes={{500}} -v {{path/to/file}}`