-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkmwkAACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCcNwCgq8cvmUrkS470sYkFhB2BlBZZ 4ncAoL6fIZbjX82m8EzOL1a513xSOipG =R5qM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
