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| author | Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.se> | 2014-01-31 17:39:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2014-02-09 11:29:24 +0000 |
| commit | b370924c03adaef222859061c61be06fc30c9a3e (patch) | |
| tree | 026d54633dc52ac9c7339b2c953f5cfeceaa7426 /doc | |
| parent | b938b6e289ef78815935ffa705673a6a8b2ee98e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-b370924c03adaef222859061c61be06fc30c9a3e.tar.xz | |
od: add an --endian option to control byte swapping
* src/od.c (main): Handle the new --endian option,
taking "little" and "big" as parameters.
(usage): Describe the new option.
(PRINT_FIELDS): Adjust to swap bytes if required.
* tests/misc/od-endian.sh: A new test to verify
the byte swapping operations for hex (ints) and floats
for all sizes between 1 and 16 inclusive.
* test/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation): Describe the new option.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 35e7bd9fd..326929125 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -1868,6 +1868,16 @@ none (do not print offsets). The default is octal. +@item --endian=@var{order} +@opindex --endian +@cindex byte-swapping +@cindex endianness +Reorder input bytes, to handle inputs with differing byte orders, +or to provide consistent output independent of the endian convention +of the current system. Swapping is performed according to the +specified @option{--type} size and endian @var{order}, which can be +@samp{little} or @samp{big}. + @item -j @var{bytes} @itemx --skip-bytes=@var{bytes} @opindex -j |