Index: head/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 =================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 +++ head/usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm a Named characters -.Pq Tn ASCII . +.Pq ASCII . Control characters are displayed using the following names: .Bl -column "000 NUL" "001 SOH" "002 STX" "003 ETX" "004 EOT" "005 ENQ" .It "000 NUL 001 SOH 002 STX 003 ETX 004 EOT 005 ENQ" @@ -243,6 +243,24 @@ .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std +.Sh EXAMPLES +Dump stdin and show the output using named characters and C-style escaped +characters: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo "FreeBSD: The power to serve" | od -a -c +0000000 F r e e B S D : sp T h e sp p o w + F r e e B S D : T h e p o w +0000020 e r sp t o sp s e r v e nl + e r t o s e r v e \en +0000034 +.Ed +.Pp +Dump stdin skipping the first 13 bytes using named characters and dumping no +more than 5 bytes: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ echo "FreeBSD: The power to serve" | od -An -a -j 13 -N 5 + p o w e r +.Ed .Sh COMPATIBILITY The traditional .Fl s