od Command od Print an octal dump of a file od [-bcdox] [file] [ [+] offset[.][b] ] od prints the specified file as a sequence of octal numbers, or machine words. If no file is specified, od dumps the standard input. The following options set the format of od's output: -b Bytes in default base -c Bytes in ASCII characters -d Words in decimal -o Words in octal -x Words in hexadecimal The default base is octal on the PDP-11 and hexadecimal on the i8086, Z-8001, and M68000 families of microprocessors. Dumping can start at position offset into the file. The specified offset is octal unless the `.' suffix is present to signify decimal. offset is in bytes unless the b suffix is present to signify 512-byte blocks. ***** See Also ***** ASCII, commands, conv, db, scat COHERENT Lexicon Page 1