On Thu, Dec 01, 2011, guy keren wrote about "Re: Unix History: Why does hexdump default to word alignment?": > apparently, you did not use binary data serialization in the past > two decades. when you serialize data and store it into a file (also > on the network), it is very useful to be able to see the data as > 2-byte or 4-byte or whatever-byte numbers, when debugging.
Well, for debugging you typically use tools like a debugger (gdb, ddd, etc.) or network sniffer or something - and those have their own methods of displaying data, and do not use od. So using the actual "od" command in a shell or shell-script is not something I ended up doing in recent years. I don't think I even noticed the "new" hexdump sibling of od cropped up in Linux ;-) -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Dec 1 2011, [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |He who dies with the most toys is still http://nadav.harel.org.il |dead -- Citibank billboard, Manhattan 2001 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
