Greetings,
Here is an example that illustrates the problem:
Run the command:
echo -n "BADCFEHG" | od -t x2z -A x --endian=little
The output is:
000000 4142 4344 4546 4748 >BADCFEHG<
000008
As expected, the input data has been interpreted as 16-bit data and
byte-swapped
in the hex output, however the ASCII representation to the right is not
byte-swapped.
I checked the documentation and its description of the 'z' type suffix
offers no clue
as to whether the byte-swapping applies to the output characters or not.
FYI, I am using od version 9.4, running under Ubuntu 24.04.
Regards,
Ray Allen
