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bug#15206: Report od bugs
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
bug#15206: Report od bugs |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 05:51:14 -0600 |
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tag 15206 notabug
thanks
On 08/29/2013 12:01 AM, Kaitao Lai wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I am writing this email to report a bug from od command. I am working in
> bioinformatics research filed, and currently I am trying to convert phred
> scores from fastq format file to Ascii values, and met weird things. For
> example, when I try to convert 100 characters into ASCII values, if the last
> 30 characters are the same, it only return part of values, NOT the complete
> values.
> The example is listed below:
> If there is very long poly-# string, then below 100 characters only return 84
> ASCII values.
>
> $ echo '=:?D+AAB<address@hidden' | od -An -t dC
> 61 58 63 68 43 65 65 66 60 66 63 68 67 65 70
> 69
> 66 65 70 63 71 72 73 66 71 70 71 67 68 71 66
> 71
> 65 70 71 56 67 70 63 70 63 68 61 68 71 63 66
> 70
> 72 71 61 64 55 55 67 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35
> 35
> 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35 35
> 35
> *
> 35 35 35 35 10
This behavior is documented, and required by POSIX.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/od.html
If you don't want elision of identical lines, then you must use the -v
option.
As this is working as intended, and is just usage error on your part,
I'm marking this as not a bug. Feel free to add further comments or
questions to this report, though.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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