That's a great use of od -N... to obviate dd. But the rest of the solution could be more robust.
cut -b9- depends on the width of the offset field which is allowed to vary among implementations. Better to simply suppress the input offset with od -An ....
head -n1 assumes that the first line will contain exactly what's needed, nothing more and nothing less. There is no guarantee that the first line will contain 16 bytes worth of data (especially since you're reading twice as many bytes as needed).
Those assumptions may be true for your od, but they may not be true for all. Even if they are, when it can be trivially accomplished, it's often best to not depend on unspecified behavior.
In this case, it is not a problem, but if an odd number of bytes is read, then od -x ... will add a nullbyte of padding to complete the final 2-byte output block. This results in one too many bytes (two too many hex characters) in the result. The more general solution should use a 1-byte output format.
Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 09-20-2012 at 05:32 PM..
Reason: simplified a statement per drl's suggestion
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