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From: | Paul A. Clarke |
Subject: | Re: od swap support? |
Date: | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:45:51 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.4.1 (X11/20050929) |
Paul Eggert wrote:
"Paul A. Clarke" <address@hidden> writes:Is there any interest in adding a flag to od to support byteswapping?Would "dd conv=swab | od" suffice?
No. "dd conv=swab" only swaps byte pairs, thus 32bit or 64bit structured data will not appear "correctly" unswapped:
(GenuineIntel)# dd conv=swab if=endiana | od -tx4 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 0000000 63646162 0000004 (Power5)> od -tx4 endiana 0000000 61626364 0000004However, you have a point in that perhaps this enhancement should instead be targeted at the "dd" command instead of "od".
Thoughts? Regards, Paul
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