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Commands tagged od

Terminal - Commands tagged od - 6 results

echo -n "text" | od -A n -t x1 |sed 's/ /\\x/g'

2010-07-14 15:31:36

User: camocrazed

Functions: echo od sed

Tags: sed hex ascii od

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Convert ascii string to hex

If you're going to use od, here's how to suppress the labels at the beginning. Also, it doesn't output the \x, hence the sed command at the end. Remove it for space separated hex values instead

od -c <FILE> | grep --color '\\.'

2009-12-11 02:15:48

User: sputnick

Functions: grep od

Tags: od

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See non printable caracters like tabulations, CRLF, LF line terminators ( colored )

For fancier and cleaner output, try the following snippet :

showendlines(){ while read i; do od --address-radix=n --width=$(wc -c <<< "$i") -c <<< "$i" | perl -pe 's/.\K\s{2,3}//g'; done < $1 | grep --color '\\.'; }

Now you can run that with :

showendlines <FILE>

Thanks to prince_jammys to "debug" my English ;)

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n=$RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM; let "n %= 10000000000"; echo $n

2009-10-15 05:10:00

User: alset

Functions: echo

Tags: sed HEAD od

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Outputs a 10-digit random number

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echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM |cut -c3-12

2009-10-13 08:08:45

User: emmerich164

Functions: cut echo

Tags: sed HEAD od

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Outputs a 10-digit random number

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head -c4 /dev/urandom | od -N4 -tu4 | sed -ne '1s/.* //p'

2009-10-08 11:27:20

User: unixmonkey1299

Functions: head od sed

Tags: sed HEAD od

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Outputs a 10-digit random number

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(Command too long..See sample Output..)

2009-06-14 20:34:37

User: mohan43u

Tags: bash sed echo tr od

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urlencode

curl doesn't provide url-encoding for 'GET' data, it have an option '--data-urlencode', but its only for 'POST' data. Thats why I need to write down this commandline. With 'perl', 'php' and 'python', this is one liner, but just I wrote it for fun. Works in Ubuntu, will work in all linux varients(I hope it will work in unix varients also).