From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 26 8:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from miki.instinct.org (miki.instinct.org [213.253.1.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9116837B479; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 08:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pgl@localhost) by miki.instinct.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA68885; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:33:19 GMT (envelope-from pgl) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:33:19 +0000 From: Peter Lowe To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: od Message-ID: <20001126163319.A68842@uk.clara.net> Reply-To: pgl@uk.clara.net References: <20001126150107.A68587@uk.clara.net> <20001126160836.A6889@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001126160836.A6889@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:08:36PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Nov 26, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:01:07PM +0000, Peter Lowe wrote: > > so instead I thought I'd point out > > that there's no proper man page for od(1). > > Define "proper". On my system, od(1) contains brief information > explaining that od has been deprecated in favour of hexdump(1). The > hexdump man page contains lots of information. > > What do you see? the same, but I was curious to know what all the options do: SYNOPSIS od [-aBbcDdeFfHhIiLlOovXx] [[+]offset[.][Bb]] file I came across something that recommended using piping output through od -c to look for \0 strings. I'm quite happy to use hexdump(1), but how do I tell what the corresponding option is? I've never used od(1) before and I don't know what the -c argument does. I should have included this before, but I'm using FreeBSD 3.4. regards, peter lowe. -- This is not the signature you are looking for. Move along. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message