Re: [Hampshire] Hex dump

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From: "Rob Malpass" <lug@???>
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Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hex dump


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> From: "Hugo Mills" <hugo@???>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hex dump
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>> $ hd foo.img
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> Thanks Hugo. Interestingly enough - od's man page didn't come up with hd
> in the "SEE ALSO" section which I personally think is often the most
> useful
> section of manpages!
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> Cheers
> Rob
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...and forgive me replying to my own post but I've just noticed that hd is a
link to hexdump on my system but if I do

$ hd foo.img

then I get what I want but if I do

$ hexdump foo.img

then I don't get the ASCII at the end. Very odd as hd and hexdump are
effectively one and the same courtesy of the link. I'm obviously missing
something here - anyone enlighten me? It's almost as though hd is some
sort of batch file wrapper for hd with the correct syntax but the ls -l
output gives me that it's a symbolic link.

Cheers
Rob