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32.\" @(#)od.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
33.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1,v 1.17 2004/07/11 01:11:12 tjr Exp $
34.\"
35.Dd July 11, 2004
36.Os
37.Dt OD 1
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm od
40.Nd octal, decimal, hex, ASCII dump
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl aBbcDdeFfHhIiLlOosvXx
44.Op Fl A Ar base
45.Op Fl j Ar skip
46.Op Fl N Ar length
47.Op Fl t Ar type
48.Sm off
49.Oo
50.Op Cm \&+
51.Li offset
52.Op Cm \&.
53.Op Cm Bb
54.Oc
55.Sm on
56.Op Ar
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58The
59.Nm
60utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or standard
61input if no files are specified, in a user specified format.
62.Pp
63The options are as follows:
64.Bl -tag -width ".Fl I , L , l"
65.It Fl A Ar base
66Specify the input address base.
67.Ar base
68may be one of
69.Cm d ,
70.Cm o ,
71.Cm x
72or
73.Cm n ,
74which specify decimal, octal, hexadecimal
75addresses or no address, respectively.
76.It Fl a
77Output named characters.
78Equivalent to
79.Fl t Ar a .
80.It Fl B , o
81Output octal shorts.
82Equivalent to
83.Fl t Ar o2 .
84.It Fl b
85Output octal bytes.
86Equivalent to
87.Fl t Ar o1 .
88.It Fl c
89Output C-style escaped characters.
90Equivalent to
91.Fl t Ar c .
92.It Fl D
93Output unsigned decimal ints.
94Equivalent to
95.Fl t Ar u4 .
96.It Fl e , F
97Output double-precision floating point numbers.
98Equivalent to
99.Fl t Ar fD .
100.It Fl f
101Output single-precision floating point numbers.
102Equivalent to
103.Fl t Ar fF .
104.It Fl H , X
105Output hexadecimal ints.
106Equivalent to
107.Fl t Ar x4 .
108.It Fl h , x
109Output hexadecimal shorts.
110Equivalent to
111.Fl t Ar x2 .
112.It Fl I , L , l
113Output signed decimal longs.
114Equivalent to
115.Fl t Ar dL .
116.It Fl i
117Output signed decimal ints.
118Equivalent to
119.Fl t Ar dI .
120.It Fl j Ar skip
121Skip
122.Ar skip
123bytes of the combined input before dumping.
124The number may be followed by one
125of
126.Cm b , k
127or
128.Cm m
129which specify the units of the number as blocks (512 bytes), kilobytes and
130megabytes, respectively.
131.It Fl N Ar length
132Dump at most
133.Ar length
134bytes of input.
135.It Fl O
136Output octal ints.
137Equivalent to
138.Fl t Ar o4 .
139.It Fl s
140Output signed decimal shorts.
141Equivalent to
142.Fl t Ar d2 .
143.It Fl t Ar type
144Specify the output format.
145.Ar type
146is a string containing one or more of the following kinds of type specifiers:
147.Bl -tag -width indent
148.It Cm a
149Named characters
150.Pq Tn ASCII .
151Control characters are displayed using the following names:
152.Bl -column "000 NUL" "001 SOH" "002 STX" "003 ETX" "004 EOT" "005 ENQ"
153.It "000 NUL 001 SOH 002 STX 003 ETX 004 EOT 005 ENQ"
154.It "006 ACK 007 BEL 008 BS 009 HT 00a NL 00b VT"
155.It "00c FF 00d CR 00e SO 00f SI 010 DLE 011 DC1"
156.It "012 DC2 013 DC3 014 DC4 015 NAK 016 SYN 017 ETB"
157.It "018 CAN 019 EM 01a SUB 01b ESC 01c FS 01d GS"
158.It "01e RS 01f US 020 SP 0ff DEL"
159.El
160.It Cm c
161Characters in the default character set.
162Non-printing characters are
163represented as 3-digit octal character codes, except the following
164characters, which are represented as C escapes:
165.Pp
166.Bl -tag -width carriage-return -compact
167.It NUL
168\e0
169.It alert
170\ea
171.It backspace
172\eb
173.It newline
174\en
175.It carriage-return
176\er
177.It tab
178\et
179.It vertical tab
180\ev
181.El
182.Pp
183Multi-byte characters are displayed in the area corresponding to the first
184byte of the character. The remaining bytes are shown as
185.Ql ** .
186.It Xo
187.Sm off
188.Op Cm d | o | u | x
189.Op Cm C | S | I | L | Ar n
190.Sm on
191.Xc
192Signed decimal
193.Pq Cm d ,
194octal
195.Pq Cm o ,
196unsigned decimal
197.Pq Cm u
198or
199hexadecimal
200.Pq Cm x .
201Followed by an optional size specifier, which may be either
202.Cm C
203.Pq Vt char ,
204.Cm S
205.Pq Vt short ,
206.Cm I
207.Pq Vt int ,
208.Cm L
209.Pq Vt long ,
210or a byte count as a decimal integer.
211.It Xo
212.Sm off
213.Cm f
214.Op Cm F | D | L | Ar n
215.Sm on
216.Xc
217Floating-point number.
218Followed by an optional size specifier, which may be either
219.Cm F
220.Pq Vt float ,
221.Cm D
222.Pq Vt double
223or
224.Cm L
225.Pq Vt "long double" .
226.El
227.It Fl v
228Write all input data, instead of replacing lines of duplicate values with a
229.Ql * .
230.El
231.Pp
232Multiple options that specify output format may be used; the output will
233contain one line for each format.
234.Pp
235If no output format is specified,
236.Fl t Ar oS
237is assumed.
238.Sh ENVIRONMENT
239The
240.Ev LANG , LC_ALL
241and
242.Ev LC_CTYPE
243environment variables affect the execution of
244.Nm
245as described in
246.Xr environ 7 .
247.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
248.Ex -std
249.Sh COMPATIBILITY
250The traditional
251.Fl s
252option to extract string constants is not supported; consider using
253.Xr strings 1
254instead.
255.Sh SEE ALSO
256.Xr hexdump 1 ,
257.Xr strings 1
258.Sh STANDARDS
259The
260.Nm
261utility conforms to
262.St -p1003.1-2001 .
263.Sh HISTORY
264An
265.Nm
266command appeared in
267.At v1 .