Re: od command

Eric Blake <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:50:23 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
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FYI - the bug-textutils mailing list has moved to bug-coreutils; if you
got the old address from the output of 'od --help', then you probably
should upgrade your coreutils installation.

According to Vance, Jack D. on 11/18/2005 10:12 AM:
> Hello - can you please tell me what the numeric value is in the following output?
> "0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> *
> 1415102464".
>  
> The command used was "od -Ad -tx1" run on a wiped 10.0GB hard drive with 10,005,037,056 bytes.

"info od" may be helpful here.  The output is telling you that the first
file offset at octal 0000000 consisted of all 00 bytes, then a * meaning
identical lines, up until offset octal 1415102464 at EOF.

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Eric Blake             [email protected]
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