Re: od swap support?

[Paul A. Clarke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Paul A. Clarke" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Is there any interest in adding a flag to od to support byteswapping?
>
> Would "dd conv=swab | od" suffice?

No.  "dd conv=swab" only swaps byte pairs, thus 32bit or 64bit 
structured data will not appear "correctly" unswapped:

(GenuineIntel)# dd conv=swab if=endiana | od -tx4
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
0000000 63646162
0000004

(Power5)> od -tx4 endiana
0000000 61626364
0000004

However, you have a point in that perhaps this enhancement should 
instead be targeted at the "dd" command instead of "od".

Thoughts?
Regards,
Paul