Re: host endianness

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:19:34AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:44:35AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>  > > echo -n 'C!' | od -h | sed 's/[^1234]*//;s/2143/4321/p;d'
>  > 
>  > Host shells might not support "echo -n", so please use printf "%s" "C!"
>  > instead.
> 
> Why not just printf "C!"? However,
> 
>    echo 'C!' | od -N 2 -h | sed 's/[^1234]*//;s/2143/4321/p;d'
> 
> is somewhat tidier.

If this's s'ppossed to be host os and machine independent:

No 'od -h' on Solaris 8, neither on 10.

        -is