Re: Od - man page - an example

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Cintia Del Rio wrote:
> *** Reading the od man page, I found out the -x option could be useful to me. 
>
> $ od -x arquivo.bin
>
> 0000000 0012 0000 1234 0000 3456 0012 5678 1234
> 0000020 2211 4433
> 0000024
>
> As you can see, it's messy to understand. Of course I didn't want
> anything like this. I was thinking that a "hexadecimal short" would
> give to me TWO HEXADECIMAL DIGITS, and not two bytes. Neither me or my
> friends could get it.....
>
> I searched in google and I find another guy that have asked the same thing... 
> Then I tried: 
>
> $ od -t x1 arquivo.bin
> 0000000 12 00 00 00 34 12 00 00 56 34 12 00 78 56 34 12
> 0000020 11 22 33 44
> 0000024
>
> Of course little endian looks like crazy, but never mind. 
>
> $ od -t x4 arquivo.bin
> 0000000 00000012 00001234 00123456 12345678
> 0000020 44332211
> 0000024
>
> I guess this too examples is the most common things a PC user would
> like to use. Maybe they would be useful =)

Sorry I just got this message of this thread.
IMHO examples would be very useful for od.
Personally 99% of the time I use it for a hexdump like:

alias hd='od -Ax -tx1z -v'

Pádraig.