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  1. Bug #784758
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Comment 1 for bug 784758

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately you did not specify what version of Ubuntu (and of coreutils) you are using, which makes it a bit more difficult to pinpoint your issue.

Nevertheless, I went ahead and checked Lucid (since, in your description, you refer to Lucid):

ubuntu@cempedak:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
ubuntu@cempedak:~$ od --version
od (GNU coreutils) 7.4
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jim Meyering.
ubuntu@cempedak:~$ od --help | grep strings
  -S, --strings[=BYTES] output strings of at least BYTES graphic chars
ubuntu@cempedak:~$

From 'man od' I see:

       -S, --strings[=BYTES]
              output strings of at least BYTES graphic chars

So, at least on Lucid, this is not an issue. So, without more details from you, I do not see this issue.

Also, the full documentation for any coreutils utility is provided as an 'info' page; '--help' and 'man' are summarised (in fact, the 'man' entries are generated _from_ the ' --help').

Finally, I fail to see why this would be a trick -- even more a nasty one -- played by upstream coreutils on any one. Bugs happen.

Marking Incomplete/Low