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[OT] Is od broken?
On 2008-06-10, Gary Johnson wrote:
> $ cat abc.txt
> This is abc file
>
> $ od -t cx1 abc.txt
> 0000000 T h i s i s a b c f i l e
> 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 62 63 20 66 69 6c 65
> 0000020 \n
> 0a
> 0000021
That looks horrible! The results are the same on my Red Hat
Enterprise Linux WS release 4 box, but on both my SunOS 5.8 and
HP-UX 11.11 machines I see the neatly-aligned outputs I'm used to:
HP-UX:
<fwcomp1> od -t cx1 abc.txt
0000000 T h i s i s a b c f i l e
54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 62 63 20 66 69 6c 65
0000020 \n
a
0000021
SunOS:
<suncomp3> od -t cx1 abc.txt
0000000 T h i s i s a b c f i l e
54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 62 63 20 66 69 6c 65
0000020 \n
0a
0000021
This looks like a defect in the upstream od code for Linux. Should
I report it (to bug DASH coreutils AT gnu DOT org), or is this
misalignment of the character and hex values a new "feature"?
Regards,
Gary
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