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od - command option differences (CrCh151)

Problem description

Some Tru64 UNIX od functionality does not exist on HP-UX.

The following od command options are available on Tru64 UNIX but not HP-UX:

• -a displays bytes as characters and displays them with their ASCII names. If the p character is also specified, bytes with even parity are underlined. The P character causes bytes with odd parity to be underlined. Otherwise, parity is ignored.
• -B displays short words as octal values.
• -C displays any extended characters as standard printable ASCII characters using the appropriate character escape string.
• -D displays long words as unsigned decimal values.
• -e displays long words as double-precision, floating-point.
• -f displays long words as single-precision, floating-point.
• -F displays long words as double-precision, floating-point.
• -h displays short words as unsigned hexadecimal values.
• -H displays long words as unsigned hexadecimal values.
• -i displays short words as signed decimal values.
• -I, -l, -L, and -S display long words as signed decimal values.
• -O displays long words as unsigned octal values.
• -p indicates even parity on -a conversion.
• -P indicates odd parity on -a conversion.
• -Q displays quadwords as hexadecimal values.
• -s[number] looks for strings of ASCII graphic characters, terminated with a null byte. The number argument specifies the minimum length string to be recognized. By default, the minimum length is 3 characters. Allowable characters are those between blank (040) and tilde (0176), as well as backspace, tab, linefeed, formfeed, and carriage-return (010 through 015, except 013).
• -s displays, if the environment variable CMD_ENV is set to svr4, signed words (32-bit or Tru64 UNIX short words) as signed decimal values. If the environment variable CMD_ENV is set to xpg4, then the action is the same as using the -i option.
• -X displays long words as unsigned hexadecimal values.

Identifiers

od:-a	od:-D	od:-f	od:-I	od:-l	od:-p	od:-s
od:-B	od:-e	od:-H	od:-i	od:-O	od:-Q	od:-X
od:-C	od:-F	od:-h	od:-L	od:-P	od:-S

See also

• Background information on command and utilities impacts
• od(1)

Solution description

Review your code and the applicable manpages to determine how to resolve this issue.

If your code has a dependency on the -D, -H, -I, -l, -L, -S, -O, and -X options, use the -t type_string option.

See also

• od(1)

Problem summary