On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:14:30AM +0000, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> When invoking hexdump as hd enable the "Canonical" format to by
> default, implying the -C option.
Well, I personally prefer aliases too, but ...
> This is historic behaviour on Debian and apparently also on FreeBSD.
> Some Debian users have asked for this to be restored, after Debian
> switched to util-linux' hexdump and hd.
if BSD implements it 24 years ago than it's probably good idea to
follow this manner to make util-linux more portable.
Merged to the "next" branch (it's too late for v2.36).
Karel
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