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Operating Systems Linux Fedora od -c . does not work on mine Post 302399336 by drl on Saturday 27th of February 2010 10:08:02 AM

02-27-2010

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Hi.

Of the systems on which I tried to use od with a directory, Solaris 10 failed, but (some versions of) IBM AIX, and HP-UX succeeded.

The K & R book was written a long time ago, before Linux was created. I do not know why Linux restricts commands like cat and od from dealing with directories.

The chmod behavior might be explained by the setting of your umask. See man umask for details ... cheers, drl

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