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:

od -b <fileName>		(display files in octal format)
od -t x1 <fileName>		(display files in hexadecimal bytes format)
od -c <fileName>		(display files in ASCII (backslashed) character format)

Example:

 od -b format.txt                          
od -t x1 format.txt
od -c format.txt

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'

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