A little more information.
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Yuan Cao wrote:
> > I recently came across the following behavior.
> >
> > When using "--traditional x2" or "-x" option, it seems the order of hex
> > code output for the characters is pairwise reversed (if that's the correct
> > way of describing it).
‘-x’
Output as hexadecimal two-byte units. Equivalent to ‘-t x2’.
Outputs 16-bit integers in the *native byte order* of the machine.
Which may be either big-endian or little-endian depending on the
machine. Not portable. Depends upon the machine it is run upon.
> If you want to hexdump independently of endianess you can:
>
> od -Ax -tx1z -v
The -tx1 option above is portable because it outputs 1-byte units
instead of 2-byte units which is independent of endianess.
This is the FAQ entry for this topic.
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-_0027od-_002dx_0027-command-prints-bytes-in-the-wrong-order_002e
Bob
