Re: [textutils-2.0] [od] feature suggestion

[Jim Meyering]

"Roth, Kevin P." <address@hidden> wrote:

> My platform:
>
>   $ uname -a
>   CYGWIN_NT-5.0 FDYP143578 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
>
> I was attempting to get od to output hex characters and ascii characters lined
> up on top of each other, like so:
>
>    0000000  t  h  i  s     i  s     l  i  n  e     o  n  e
>            74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 6c  69 6e 65 20 6f 6e 65
>
> but the closest I could get seemed to be:
>
>    $ od -tcx1 filename
>    0000000   t   h   i   s       i   s       l   i   n   e       o   n   e
>            74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 6c 69 6e 65 20 6f 6e 65

Thanks for the suggestion, but
how about just filtering the od output through a little sed filter instead:

  $ printf 'this is line one\nline two\n'|od -tcx1|sed '/^[0-9]/s/ \( .\)/\1/g'
  0000000  t  h  i  s     i  s     l  i  n  e     o  n  e
          74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 6c 69 6e 65 20 6f 6e 65
  0000020 \n  l  i  n  e     t  w  o \n
          0a 6c 69 6e 65 20 74 77 6f 0a
  0000032