OD(1)

💅 OD(1) 💅

okay bestie, this is the od page from the General Commands Manual — manual name folded in right at the top, no cap. It’s giving “dump files in octal and other formats,” and every flag is about to get its moment. periodt. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

od — Dump files in octal and other formats.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

od [OPTION]... [--] [FILENAME]...
od [-abcdDefFhHiIlLoOsxX] [FILENAME] [[+][0x]OFFSET[.][b]]
od --traditional [OPTION]... [FILENAME] [[+][0x]OFFSET[.][b]
[[+][0x]LABEL[.][b]]]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Dump files in octal and other formats. That’s it, bestie — short and iconic. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — Print help information.
• -A, --address-radix <RADIX> — Select the base in which file offsets are printed.
• -j, --skip-bytes <BYTES> — Skip bytes input bytes before formatting and writing.
• -N, --read-bytes <BYTES> — limit dump to BYTES input bytes.
• --endian <big|little> — byte order to use for multi-byte formats.
  • Possible values:
    • big
    • little
• -S, --strings [<BYTES>] — output strings of at least BYTES graphic chars. 3 is assumed when BYTES is not specified.
• -a — named characters, ignoring high-order bit.
• -b — octal bytes.
• -c — ASCII characters or backslash escapes.
• -d — unsigned decimal 2-byte units.
• -D — unsigned decimal 4-byte units.
• -o — octal 2-byte units.
• -I — decimal 8-byte units.
• -L — decimal 8-byte units.
• -i — decimal 4-byte units.
• -l — decimal 8-byte units.
• -x — hexadecimal 2-byte units.
• -h — hexadecimal 2-byte units.
• -O — octal 4-byte units.
• -s — decimal 2-byte units.
• -X — hexadecimal 4-byte units.
• -H — hexadecimal 4-byte units.
• -e — floating point double precision (64-bit) units.
• -f — floating point single precision (32-bit) units.
• -F — floating point double precision (64-bit) units.
• -t, --format <TYPE> — select output format or formats.
• -v, --output-duplicates — do not use * to mark line suppression.
• -w, --width [<BYTES>] — output BYTES bytes per output line. 32 is implied when BYTES is not specified.
• --traditional — compatibility mode with one input, offset and label.
• -V, --version — Print version.

🦋 EXTRA 🦋

Displays data in various human-readable formats. If multiple formats are specified, the output will contain all formats in the order they appear on the command line. Each format will be printed on a new line. Only the line containing the first format will be prefixed with the offset. 💖

If no filename is specified, or it is "-", stdin will be used. After a --, no more options will be recognized. This allows for filenames starting with a -.

If a filename is a valid number which can be used as an offset in the second form, you can force it to be recognized as a filename if you include an option like -j0, which is only valid in the first form. ngl, that’s a little unhinged, but it’s literally in the page.

RADIX is one of o, d, x, n for octal, decimal, hexadecimal or none.

BYTES is decimal by default, octal if prefixed with a "0", or hexadecimal if prefixed with a "0x". The suffixes b, KB, K, MB, M, GB, G, will multiply the number with 512, 1000, 1024, 1000^2, 1024^2, 1000^3, 1024^3, 1000^2, 1024^2.

OFFSET and LABEL are octal by default, hexadecimal if prefixed with "0x" or decimal if a "." suffix is added. The "b" suffix will multiply with 512.

TYPE contains one or more format specifications consisting of:

• a for printable 7-bits ASCII
• c for utf-8 characters or octal for undefined characters
• d[SIZE] for signed decimal
• f[SIZE] for floating point
• o[SIZE] for octal
• u[SIZE] for unsigned decimal
• x[SIZE] for hexadecimal SIZE is the number of bytes which can be the number 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16, or C, S, I, L for 1, 2, 4, 8 bytes for integer types, or F, D, L for 4, 8, 16 bytes for floating point. Any type specification can have a "z" suffix, which will add a ASCII dump at the end of the line.

If an error occurred, a diagnostic message will be printed to stderr, and the exit code will be non-zero.

⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

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okay bestie, that’s the whole page — signed off with source/version v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 and date 2026-09-17. mwah 💋