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I am trying to use busybox to dump files in /sys and /proc.

I happen to have an embedded device with busybox 1.31.

I noticed that xxd does not have the -e option for little endian.

I can't figure out how to do this in od or hexdump either, with busybox's limited set of options.

Any ideas?

Example of what does not work:

# hexdump fsl,mf-mix-wakeup-irq
0000000 c007 0000 0000 007d 0000 0000 4001 4006

# od -X fsl,mf-mix-wakeup-irq
0000000         0000c007        007d0000        00000000        40064001
0000020

This is the byte order that I want (from the source code):

0x7c00000 0x7d00 0x0 0x1400640
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    Can you edit your question to show what sort of output you get (with e.g. od -c), and what you want to get instead? What are the files?
    – ilkkachu
    Feb 23, 2021 at 20:11
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    Is your data in machine endianness or not? What's wrong with xxd -g4 or od -tx4?
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Feb 23, 2021 at 20:29

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Gilles had the solution:

# xxd -g4 fsl,mf-mix-wakeup-irq
00000000: 07c00000 00007d00 00000000 01400640  ......}......@.@

Note that various od options are invalid in busybox:

# od -tx4 fsl,mf-mix-wakeup-irq
od: invalid option -- 't'
BusyBox v1.31.0 (2021-02-24 17:49:57 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: od [-aBbcDdeFfHhIiLlOovXx] [FILE]
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    ok, right, Busybox has two versions of od, the one in od_bloaty.c is enabled only if ENABLE_DESKTOP is set, so the one on my Debian is more featureful, it does have od -t x4.
    – ilkkachu
    Feb 24, 2021 at 20:44

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