What does an asterisk "*" mean in hexdump output?
I print MBR with hexdump and I get the following output:
000001a0 67 60 6f 70 65 72 61 74 69 6e 67 60 73 79 73 74 |g`operating`syst|
000001b0 65 6d 00 40 00 63 7b da c5 f5 61 68 00 40 00 40 |[email protected]{...ah.@.@|
000001c0 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 |.@.@.@.@.@.@.@.@|
*
000001f0 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 00 40 55 ea |.@.@.@.@.@.@.@U.|
00000200
What does the astersik *
mean in the output?
A line in the hexdump output consisting just a *
means same as the line above
. This is mentioned in the hexdump's manpage at the -v
option (easy to be overlooked).