On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 18:22 -0600, AJ ONeal wrote: > hexdump exposes the magic number as 42 4D > instead I see 4D 42 > but if I make it two chars rather than one short I do get 42 4D
A quick test reveals that hexdump is "helpfully" swapping bytes. One fix is to add the -C option. $ echo 0123456789 | hexdump 0000000 3130 3332 3534 3736 3938 000a 000000b $ echo 0123456789 | hexdump -C 00000000 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 0a |0123456789.| 0000000b -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
