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Subject:	Re: types "quad_t" & "u_quad_t"
From:	Hannu E K Nevalainen <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
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Date:	Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:16:05 +0100
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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.
> 


-- 
Hannu E K Nevalainen <_garbage_collector_ KANELBULLE telia.com>


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