Questions tagged [od]
37 questions
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Interpreting octal dump without options
$ echo "hello" | od
0000000 062550 066154 005157
0000006
I know that the first column represents the byte offset. But I don't see how the other numbers are formed. According to man the above should be "octal bytes". However the option -b is…
user2820379
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Understanding `od -c` output
I've got a text file that I'm trying to debug an encoding issue in. I ran the file through od -c and got the following output:
3457540 , " t e x t " : " 302 241 Q u 303 251
My understanding from the man page is that -c…
Eric Andres
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understanding od -a option
In Linux, the --type a option in od is explained as
--type=
Select the format in which to output the file data
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a
named character, ignoring high-order bit
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Only the least significant seven bits of each byte is used; the…
erch
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od command to print all the values
I am running the od command as od -b myfile to convert a file I have into image pixels. I need to see all the values but because they are too many the command prints the following:
0000000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000…
Michail
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What does the '005' mean in the output of linux command od?
I have a file called input_file, the following is the contents of input_file:
$ cat input_file
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
then I run the following command:
$ od -to2 input_file
Output:
0000000 005061 005062 005063 005064…
Ren
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od prints extra value
I have a binary file containing 4-byte floats. I want to print these floats using od. However, od prints one additional value at the very first position. What is going on here?
The file looks like this:
xxd test | head -1
0000000: 932a 6541 7cdf…
Andreas Unterweger
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How does od treat symbols after `\x7f`?
The following command passes to od symbols from \x00 to \xff:
$ seq 0 255 | awk '{printf("%c", $0)}' | od -c
But what I get is:
0000000 \0 001 002 003 004 005 006 \a \b \t \n \v \f \r 016 017
0000020 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 030 031…
x-yuri
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