severity 29012 wishlist
retitle 29012 od: add skip option
tags 29012 wontfix
close 29012
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2017-10-27 11:59 p.m., Christian Kögler wrote:
Am 27. Oktober 2017 07:25:25 MESZ schrieb "Pádraig Brady" <p...@draigbrady.com>:
On 26/10/17 08:13, Christian Kögler wrote:
If od is used on block devices together with skip, od reads the
skipped bytes instead of seeking it.
Yes it has done that from the initial version.
Note od concatenates multiple files, and skips across
all of them, so consequently restricts itself to
seeking where it knows the file length (regular files).
I suppose we could try to seek if a single argument was specified.
As an alternative you could skip with dd and pipe to od?
I loose the absolute address offset, but in our case a way to go.
Thanks for helping so quickly!
Given the above, I'm closing this item.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.
-assaf
