On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:38:44 -0400 Joseph Brennan wrote:
> This is a nice test I found: > echo -n I | od -to2 | awk '{ print substr($2,6,1); exit}' > > 1 little-endian > 0 big-endian I don't see how this can output anything other than 1. Endianness is about the addressing of bytes within integer words. This is looking at the ordering of human-readable octal digits displaying the contents of a single byte.