od.1 (2010 09)

od(1) od(1)

• When the number of input bytes used for transformation is set to 1 with the type speciﬁer char-

acters d, o, u,or

x, only the least-signiﬁcant seven bits of each byte are used.

• When one or more of the

-A, -j, -N,or -t options is speciﬁed, an operand starting with the

ﬁrst character as a plus-sign (

) or the ﬁrst character as numeric is interpreted as a ﬁle name.

(UNIX Standard only, see standards (5). Multiple types can be speciﬁed by using multiple

-bcdox

options. Output lines are written for each type speciﬁed in the order in which the types are speciﬁed.)

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

For information about the UNIX standard environment, see standards (5).

Environment Variables

LANG provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If

LANG is

unset or null, the default value of "C" (see lang (5)) is used. If any of the internationalization variables

contains an invalid setting,

od will behave as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See

environ (5).

LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the other internationalization vari-

ables.

LC_CTYPE determines the interpretation of text as single and/or multi-byte characters, the classiﬁcation

of characters as printable, and the characters matched by character class expressions in regular expres-

sions.

LC_MESSAGES determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic

messages written to standard error and informative messages written to standard output.

NLSPATH determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported. Multi-byte data is displayed as multi-byte

values.

RETURN VALUE

Exit values are:

0 Successful completion.

>0 Error condition occurred.