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od -A n -t x1 <file>
gave following:
02 XX XX XX XX
XX 03 02 XX XX
XX XX XX XX XX
03 02
etc.
XX are the data which are not 02 or 03 but valid ASCII characters.

Thanks corona688 for your reply. yes, i know tail shouldn't modify the data going thru it. strange.
I dont have hexdump utility.
the characters are 2 and 3 in HEX
which maps to ASCII STX and...

Hi.
I have a log file which gets updated by a java process and it uses ASCII STX and ETX characters (i.e CTRL-B and CTRL-C characters) to demarcate each XML message logged.
so the format of the...