From a801bf2de673ceef63fd58191823c67ee1f3dabc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fernape Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:48:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] od(1): Add EXAMPLES section * Add two small examples showing the use of -a, -c, -j and -N * While here, remove obsolete .Tn reported by mandoc(1) Approved by: 0mp@ Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25372 --- usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 b/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 index b78b4fda2b98..e063717a4ac5 100644 --- a/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 +++ b/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ is a string containing one or more of the following kinds of type specifiers: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm a Named characters -.Pq Tn ASCII . +.Pq ASCII . Control characters are displayed using the following names: .Bl -column "000 NUL" "001 SOH" "002 STX" "003 ETX" "004 EOT" "005 ENQ" .It "000 NUL 001 SOH 002 STX 003 ETX 004 EOT 005 ENQ" @@ -243,6 +243,24 @@ as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +Dump stdin and show the output using named characters and C-style escaped +characters: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo "FreeBSD: The power to serve" | od -a -c +0000000 F r e e B S D : sp T h e sp p o w + F r e e B S D : T h e p o w +0000020 e r sp t o sp s e r v e nl + e r t o s e r v e \en +0000034 +.Ed +.Pp +Dump stdin skipping the first 13 bytes using named characters and dumping no +more than 5 bytes: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo "FreeBSD: The power to serve" | od -An -a -j 13 -N 5 + p o w e r +.Ed .Sh COMPATIBILITY The traditional .Fl s