On 07/06/2014 06:27 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello! > > > Intersting, thanks for your reply. For "-c" the man page reads > > "printable character or backslash escape" > > I don't really see any mention of octal fallback in there :) > Personally, I would expect (and prefer) \x?? output for any > non-printable bytes from that description. My vote too add that or at > least making the man page more precise about "-c", that would be cool.
Alas, we can't change the behavior; it is mandated by POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/od.html -c [XSI] [Option Start] Interpret bytes as characters specified by the current setting of the LC_CTYPE category. Certain non-graphic characters appear as C escapes: "NUL=\0", "BS=\b", "FF=\f", "NL=\n", "CR=\r", "HT=\t"; others appear as 3-digit octal numbers. [Option End] > > I guess "od -t u1" is what I'll use in the meantime. Yes, that is a reasonable action. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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