Re: Od - man page

[Bob Proulx]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Cintia Del Rio <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi, I was trying to use the od program, and I had a hard time to
> > understand what it was doing... I'm in a little endian machine (it
> > does not look so easy to understand at all), and I used the -x option.
> >  I believed that it will impress not two bytes, but two hexa digits.
>
> I'm forwarding your message to the bug-reporting list
> address@hidden, where someone else might reply
> before I do.

I as well was not sure what you were asking.  Perhaps something in the
FAQ will be of use to you.  Search for "The 'od -x' command prints
bytes in the wrong order."  Be sure to read "on holy wars and a plea
for peace" which is one of my personal favorites.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/

Bob