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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 b/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 index 7c35096734d..b72ce9edc58 100644 --- a/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 +++ b/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: hexdump.1,v 1.4 1997/09/02 15:31:51 kstailey Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: hexdump.1,v 1.5 1998/09/26 19:54:51 aaron Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -47,10 +47,12 @@ .Bk -words .Op Fl s Ar skip .Ek -.Ar file ... +.Ar file Op Ar ... .Sh DESCRIPTION -The hexdump utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or -the standard input, if no files are specified, in a user specified +The +.Nm hexdump +utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or +the standard input, if no files are specified, in a user-specified format. .Pp The options are as follows: @@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ Display the input offset in hexadecimal, followed by sixteen space-separated, three column, space-filled, characters of input data per line. .It Fl d -.Em Two-byte decimal display. +.Em Two-byte decimal display . Display the input offset in hexadecimal, followed by eight space-separated, five column, zero-filled, two-byte units of input data, in unsigned decimal, per line. @@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ Specify a format string to be used for displaying data. .It Fl f Ar format_file Specify a file that contains one or more newline separated format strings. Empty lines and lines whose first non-blank character is a hash mark -.Pf ( Cm \&# ) +.Pq Dq \&# are ignored. .It Fl n Ar length Interpret only @@ -162,7 +164,7 @@ Any whitespace before or after the slash is ignored. .Pp The format is required and must be surrounded by double quote (" ") marks. -It is interpreted as a fprintf-style format string (see +It is interpreted as an fprintf-style format string (see .Xr fprintf 3 ) , with the following exceptions: @@ -196,7 +198,8 @@ described in the C standard are supported: .Ed .El .Pp -Hexdump also supports the following additional conversion strings: +.Nm hexdump +also supports the following additional conversion strings: .Bl -tag -width Fl .It Cm \&_a Ns Op Cm dox Display the input offset, cumulative across input files, of the @@ -307,7 +310,7 @@ to specifying the option. .Pp .Nm hexdump -exits 0 on success and >0 if an error occurred. +exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred. .Sh EXAMPLES Display the input in perusal format: .Bd -literal -offset indent |