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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-12-27 04:14:14 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-12-27 13:42:07 +0000
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doc: improve od --help and man page
* src/od.c: Redorder the information output by --help to ease interpretation and so that appropriate sections are generated by help2man. * doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation): Fix an incorrect reference to @var{n}, which should be @var{bytes}. * man/od.x: Add an "Examples" section, and move the default od format to there, and add a commonly required format to generate hexdumps. Reported by Akim Demaille in http://bugs.gnu.org/13280.
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od \- dump files in octal and other formats
[DESCRIPTION]
.\" Add any additional description here
+[EXAMPLES]
+.TP
+.B od -A x -t x1z -v
+Display hexdump format output
+.TP
+.B od -A o -t oS -w 16
+The default output format used by od