[Bug 1622711] Re: hexdump defaults to wrong endianness

[Paul White]

** Package changed: ubuntu => bsdmainutils (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  hexdump defaults to wrong endianness

Status in bsdmainutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In my terminal

      $> cat /etc/hostname
      alien
      $>

  The above output seems to indicate that `0x0a` is the final byte of
  this file, an ordinary Unix newline.

      $> hexdump /etc/hostname
      0000000 6c61 6569 0a6e

  Here it seems that the file, in two-byte words, is being displayed
  with each pair of bytes reversed.

  In other words, hexdump is defaulting to the wrong endianness.

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