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commit e1305ead0ee55a6c093d97570af9f992545b2895
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 5 05:12:39 2026 -0500
HACKING: Update od(1) usage advice.
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HACKING | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index bacc1669b..cab3718db 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -476,8 +476,8 @@ Here is some advice on writing portable automated test
scripts.
might need to be weakened to the following to work on macOS.
grep -Eqx '0000000 +A +\\b +B +\\b +C D +\\n *'
-* The "od" command on macOS, NetBSD, and OpenBSD puts extra space
- characters between the hexadecimal values when using the "-t x1"
+* The "od" command on macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD puts extra
+ space characters between the hexadecimal values when using the "-t x1"
format; GNU od does not.
So a regex like this that works with GNU od:
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ Here is some advice on writing portable automated test
scripts.
grep -q '81 *30 *55 *81 *30 *56 *81 *6c *e2'
* The "od" command on FreeBSD 14.0 and 15.0, NetBSD 10.0, and OpenBSD
- 7.8 (at least) pad out the line length with spaces to 73 columns; GNU
+ 7.8 (at least) pads out the line length with spaces to 73 columns; GNU
od does not.
So a regex like this that works with GNU od:
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