Name
od
Synopsis
od [options
] [file
] [[+]offset
[. | b]]
Octal dump; produce a dump (normally octal) of the named file. file is displayed from its beginning, unless you specify an offset (normally in octal bytes). In the following options, a “word” is a 16-bit unit.
Common Options
-A
base
,--address-radix=
base
Indicate how the offset should be written. Values for base are
d
for decimal,o
for octal,x
for hexadecimal, orn
for no offset.-
-b
Display bytes as octal.
-
-c
Display bytes as ASCII.
-
-d
Display words as unsigned decimal.
-
-f
Display 32-bit words as floating point.
-j
skip
,--skip-bytes=
skip
Jump over skip bytes from the beginning of the input. skip can have a leading
0
or0x
for it to be treated as an octal or hexadecimal value. It can have a trailingb
,k
, orm
to be treated as a multiple of 512, 1024, or 1,048,576 bytes.-N
count
,--read-bytes=
count
Process up to count input bytes.
-
-o
Display words as unsigned octal (the default).
-t
type_string
,--format=
type_string
Specify one or more output types. See the "Common Type Strings" section later in this entry.
-v
,--output-duplicates
Verbose; show all data. Without this, duplicate lines print as
*
.-
-x
Display words as hexadecimal.[*]
-
+
Required before offset if file isn’t specified.
Solaris and Mac OS X Options
-
-D
Display 32-bit words as unsigned decimal.
-
-F
Display 64-bit words as extended precision.
-
-O
Display 32-bit words as unsigned octal.
-
-s
Display words as signed decimal.
-
-X
Display 32-bit words as hexadecimal.
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