[darcs-users] Re: more feedback on binary file detection

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Mark,

> > Can we have the output of
> >
> >     od -An -w1 -td1 -v $file | sort -n | uniq -c | pr -t --columns=4
> 
> Oh, some new unix commands to try. :) I really wanted to try this, but
> FreeBSD doesn't support this syntax.  
> 
> The 'od' command is present, but lacking the '-w' flag, which I
> couldn't find the equivalent to. Also, the 'pr' command is missing,
> which I just took out of the pipeline. 

OK, the -w1 means one byte per line.  Try this instead.

    od -An -td1 -v $file | sed 's/  */x/g' | tr x '\012' | grep . |
        sort -n | uniq -c

Cheers,


Ralph.