Re: od command

[Eric Blake]

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FYI - the bug-textutils mailing list has moved to bug-coreutils; if you
got the old address from the output of 'od --help', then you probably
should upgrade your coreutils installation.

According to Vance, Jack D. on 11/18/2005 10:12 AM:
> Hello - can you please tell me what the numeric value is in the following 
> output?
> "0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> *
> 1415102464".
>  
> The command used was "od -Ad -tx1" run on a wiped 10.0GB hard drive with 
> 10,005,037,056 bytes.

"info od" may be helpful here.  The output is telling you that the first
file offset at octal 0000000 consisted of all 00 bytes, then a * meaning
identical lines, up until offset octal 1415102464 at EOF.

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