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Re: od bug


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: od bug
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:05:23 -0600
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According to Steve Frampton on 3/25/2008 3:46 PM:
| Hello,
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| Linux appears to swap the bytes within the words:

Because it's little-endian.

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| HPUX od shown as a baseline:

Because it's big-endian.

In short, this is not a bug.  -x is short for -tx2, but you probably want
to use -tx1.

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