On 07/07/2014 02:27 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> I don't really see any mention of octal fallback in there
It is already there ... in the first sentence:
NAME
od - dump files in octal and other formats
SYNOPSIS
od [OPTION]... [FILE]...
od [-abcdfilosx]... [FILE] [[+]OFFSET[.][b]]
od --traditional [OPTION]... [FILE] [[+]OFFSET[.][b] [+][LABEL][.][b]]
DESCRIPTION
Write an unambiguous representation, octal bytes
by default, of FILE to standard output.
...
BTW: the man pages of the coreutils programs are not much more
than the output from "PROG --help". Instead, the more detailed
documentation goes into the Texinfo manual - as mentioned at
the end of the man page:
SEE ALSO
...
info coreutils 'od invocation'
Alternatively you can choose the online version:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/od-invocation.html#od-invocation
> My vote too add that or at
> least making the man page more precise about "-c", that would be cool.
The output of --help and therefore 'man od' is already quite
large. Please read the info manual. If you still think that
there's something missing or unclear, please tell us ... maybe
with a suggestion for the wording, or even better as a patch.
Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny
