Reading "info od", I noticed this:
>From 12c5386a30abac2eb713cdaf7cf423e3ac33c68f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 09:11:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix a formatting nit in od's texinfo documentation
* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation): Typesetting of "bytes" was wrong.
Fix it via s/@code/@var/ so it's consistent.
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index b77d8df..289c0ba 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ od invocation
Instead of the normal output, output only @dfn{string constants}: at
least @var{bytes} consecutive @acronym{ASCII} graphic characters,
followed by a zero byte (@acronym{ASCII} @sc{nul}).
-Prefixes and suffixes on @code{bytes} are interpreted as for the
+Prefixes and suffixes on @var{bytes} are interpreted as for the
@option{-j} option.
If @var{n} is omitted with @option{--strings}, the default is 3.
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1.7.5.2.1.g56b30
