'od' cant dump directory contants

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Ariful Hossain <freefall1986 at gmail.com>wrote:

> od -cb .
>
> it should dump the directory....after searching the net i found out that
> the gnu od is implemented differently for POSIX compability. so its not
> the same as original unix od.
>
> On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 13:45 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
> > Op 18-07-10 11:35, Ariful Hossain schreef:
> > > od supposed to dump directory contents as well as files. but in my
> > > ubuntu box it cant do that.  It gives only a read error msg.  Is it a
> > > problem with gnu od or od is implemented differently from original unix
> > > od?
> >
> > What is the exact command that you used? Including all parameters?
> >
>
>
Besides all that, some filesystems don't lend themselves to od-style
dumping:
in particular, those with B-tree implementations (reiser?, ext4?).

What is the filesystem whose directory you wish to dump?


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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