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Linux od

The ‘od’ term stands for octal dump. It displays content of a file in different human-readable formats like hexadecimal, octal and ASCII characters.

Syntax:

Example:

Look at the above snapshot, command “od -b format.txt” displays in octal format, command “od -t x1 format.txt” displays in hexadecimal format, command “od -c format.txt” displays in ASCII character where a new line will be marked with ‘n’