From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] xd bug
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:22:51 -0400
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> If you look more closely at the alignment of the characters to the hex
> values you will see that xd thinks Q has character code 0x525 and R
> has character code 3. It should look more like
>
> % xd -c -x bad
> 0000000  e0Q R S  \n
>       0  e0515253 0a000000
> 0000005

The -c and -x formats are not intended to align.
If you want hex codes aligned with characters, use -b.

% echo ABCD | xd -c -x
0000000   A  B  C  D \n
      0  41424344 0a000000
0000005
%

Russ