od

Display file contents in octal, decimal or hexadecimal format. Optionally display the byte offsets and/or printable representation for each line. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/od>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/od.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install coreutils
Ubuntu
apt-get install coreutils
Alpine
apk add coreutils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S coreutils
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install coreutils
CentOS
yum install coreutils
Fedora
dnf install coreutils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install coreutils
OS X
brew install coreutils
Raspbian
apt-get install coreutils
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/od
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/od od powered by Commando

Display file contents in octal, decimal or hexadecimal format. Optionally display the byte offsets and/or printable representation for each line. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/od>.

  • Display file using default settings: octal format, 8 bytes per line, byte offsets in octal, and duplicate lines replaced with `*`:
    od path/to/file
  • Display file in verbose mode, i.e. without replacing duplicate lines with `*`:
    od -v path/to/file
  • Display file in hexadecimal format (2-byte units), with byte offsets in decimal format:
    od --format=x --address-radix=d -v path/to/file
  • Display file in hexadecimal format (1-byte units), and 4 bytes per line:
    od --format=x1 --width=4 -v path/to/file
  • Display file in hexadecimal format along with its character representation, and do not print byte offsets:
    od --format=xz --address-radix=n -v path/to/file
  • Read only 100 bytes of a file starting from the 500th byte:
    od --read-bytes 100 --skip-bytes=500 -v path/to/file

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