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  0000000 6568 6c6c b6c3 7720 726f 646c 000a
 
  0000000 6568 6c6c b6c3 7720 726f 646c 000a
 
  000000d
 
  000000d
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OK, we have a file that contains the string "hellö world".
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tstaerk@little:~> dd if=test bs=1 count=1 | hexdump
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0000000 0068
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0000001
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1+0 records in
 +
1+0 records out
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1 byte (1 B) copied, 0.00075077 s, 1.3 kB/s
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tstaerk@d3ll:~> dd if=test bs=1 count=1 skip=1 | hexdump
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1+0 records in
 +
1+0 records out
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1 byte (1 B) copied, 4.436e-05 s, 22.5 kB/s
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0000000 0065
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0000001

Revision as of 11:32, 12 December 2010

Today I am experimenting with my big endian (PowerPC) machine

tstaerk@little:~> cat >test
hellö world
tstaerk@little:~> cat test
hellö world
tstaerk@little:~> hexdump test
0000000 6568 6c6c b6c3 7720 726f 646c 000a
000000d

OK, we have a file that contains the string "hellö world".

tstaerk@little:~> dd if=test bs=1 count=1 | hexdump
0000000 0068
0000001
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte (1 B) copied, 0.00075077 s, 1.3 kB/s
tstaerk@d3ll:~> dd if=test bs=1 count=1 skip=1 | hexdump
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1 byte (1 B) copied, 4.436e-05 s, 22.5 kB/s
0000000 0065
0000001