Re: unix command od got a bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Chunyin Kung 龔俊穎 on 11/20/2008 7:55 PM:
> hi Sir,
> 
> I found my binary file including the data below will produce  " *"  by 
> command od

This is not a bug, but the documented behavior of od.  See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/od.html; you want
to use the -v option to output lines with duplicate content rather than
the * elision line.

See also this recent post:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00208.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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