On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:29 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Linda W wrote:
>
> > hmph...never heard of it (even though I have it installed (*doh!*))...
> > Sure take alot more characters to get a simple hex & ascii side-by-side
> > dump! How am I gonna remember all that? :-) I often have to use
> > the man page to figure out it's the "-C" option on hexdump to do that
> > simple feat, but now I need to remember what?...egads! Well if ya'll
> > is happy with that, that's fine w/me.
>
> Add the following to your ~/.profile then:
>
> alias od="od -A x -v -t x1z"
>
$ cat >>.profile <<EOD
function od() {
if [ -r "$1" ] ;then
argline="-A x -v -t x1z -w24 $1"
else
# Problem with dual evaluation on argline?
argline="$*"
fi
command od $argline
argline=
}
EOD
<UNTESTED/> If nothing else; you got the idea...
> Now you can type "od foo" and never have to remember the arguments. If
> you ever need to execute the "real" od without the added parameters you
> can type "o\d" instead.
>
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Hannu E K Nevalainen <_garbage_collector_ KANELBULLE telia.com>
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