Paul Eggert wrote:
"Paul A. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
0000004
However, 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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