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On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15:32, David Parkinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if the answer to this is somewhere obvious but neither I
> nor Google have found it...
>
> I've been using busybox as part of the tinycore distribution and find
> it irritating that it apparently only accepts decimal numbers on the
> command line. In particular I've been using hexdump to look at
> particular areas of memory. e.g.
>
> hexdump -C -n 128 -s 0xC00000 /dev/mem
>
> Works fine with the standard utility (eg in Fedora) but with busybox
> I just get:
>
> hexdump: invalid number '0xC00000'
>
> I tried sticking an 'h' on the backend but that didn't help either.
>
> Have I got the syntax wrong? Is it busybox? Is it tinycore's implementation?
Please try attached patch.
--
vda
diff -ad -urpN busybox.7/util-linux/hexdump.c busybox.8/util-linux/hexdump.c
--- busybox.7/util-linux/hexdump.c 2010-04-03 00:52:00.000000000 +0200
+++ busybox.8/util-linux/hexdump.c 2010-04-06 23:28:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ int hexdump_main(int argc, char **argv)
if (ch == 'n') {
dumper->dump_length = xatoi_u(optarg);
} /* else */
- if (ch == 's') {
- dumper->dump_skip = xatoul_range_sfx(optarg, 0, LONG_MAX, suffixes);
+ if (ch == 's') { /* compat: -s accepts hex numbers too */
+ dumper->dump_skip = xstrtoul_range_sfx(optarg, /*base:*/ 0, /*lo:*/ 0, /*hi:*/ LONG_MAX, suffixes);
} /* else */
if (ch == 'v') {
dumper->dump_vflag = ALL;
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