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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-09-22 05:00:50 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1997-09-22 05:00:50 +0000
commit77e927d5014034ee1fc3f2a16a8ed37ef19cb62f (patch)
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parentaa298d7bbe4d87d600f150eef2bfeb450d0e78f4 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-77e927d5014034ee1fc3f2a16a8ed37ef19cb62f.tar.xz
od's new z format
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@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ string, or use this option more than once, @code{od} writes one copy
of each output line using each of the data types that you specified,
in the order that you specified.
+Adding a trailing ``z'' to any type specification appends a display
+of the ASCII character representation of the printable characters
+to the output line generated by the type specification.
+
@table @samp
@item a
named character,