Am 27. Oktober 2017 07:25:25 MESZ schrieb "Pádraig Brady" <p...@draigbrady.com>: >On 26/10/17 08:13, Christian Kögler wrote: >> If od is used on block devices together with skip, od reads the >skipped bytes instead of seeking it. > >Yes it has done that from the initial version. >Note od concatenates multiple files, and skips across >all of them, so consequently restricts itself to >seeking where it knows the file length (regular files). > >I suppose we could try to seek if a single argument was specified. > >As an alternative you could skip with dd and pipe to od? I loose the absolute address offset, but in our case a way to go. Thanks for helping so quickly!
Cheers Christian
