od
Display file contents in octal, decimal or hexadecimal format. Optionally display the byte offsets and/or printable representation for each line. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/od.
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Display file using default settings: octal format, 8 bytes per line, byte offsets in octal, and duplicate lines replaced with
*
:
od {{path/to/file}}
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Display file in verbose mode, i.e. without replacing duplicate lines with
*
:
od -v {{path/to/file}}
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Display file in hexadecimal format (2-byte units), with byte offsets in decimal format:
od --format={{x}} --address-radix={{d}} -v {{path/to/file}}
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Display file in hexadecimal format (1-byte units), and 4 bytes per line:
od --format={{x1}} --width={{4}} -v {{path/to/file}}
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Display file in hexadecimal format along with its character representation, and do not print byte offsets:
od --format={{xz}} --address-radix={{n}} -v {{path/to/file}}
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Read only 100 bytes of a file starting from the 500th byte:
od --read-bytes {{100}} --skip-bytes={{500}} -v {{path/to/file}}
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