Dump Tool
 

Hi,

I have to write a Dump Tool for a file on UNIX. I have never written a dump tool before. Can anyone please guide me how to proceed??

jazz

No sweat. What do you want, core dump, hex dump, text dump, pickle dump, or maybe just a laxative?

Sorry .. text dump

Dump to the screen? Dump to a printer? Dump to a destination specified on the command line? Dump triggered by an external event? Do two things. Refer to UNIX utility documentation and read at least two "How to Post a Question" threads.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion i just now read the thread u mentioned...

I was mentioning about a dump program which takes a file as input, reads that file and gives a text dump file as an output in the same directory...

Hope i posted correctly..

So you want to create a copy of the file?

Off topic, I see that I need to create a smiley that suggests the difficulty of pulling teeth. It would be more efficient than my normal boiler-plate post.

Dump of what? Memory?

od -c ASCII dump
od octal
od -x hex

Has school started back already??