[Vm-dev] Packaging 64-bit and 32-bit linux VMs

[K K Subbu]

On Wednesday 16 May 2018 11:55 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> IMVER=`hexdump -n 4 -e '"%u\n"' "$IMAGE"`

od may be a better choice as it can handle endianness too. E.g.

$ od -A n -t u4 -N 4 --endian=little squeak.image
  6521
$ od -A n -t u4 -N 4 --endian=big squeak.image
  2031681536

The magic numbers may also be offset 512 bytes into the file:

$ od -j 512 .......

Regards .. Subbu