{"id":41,"date":"2021-08-20T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/?p=41"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:09:44","slug":"find-endianness-of-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/find-endianness-of-a-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Find endianness of a system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to find if a Linux\/UNIX based system is either Big-endian or Little-endian use this script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>echo I | tr -d &#91;:space:] | od -to2 | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -c6<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Little-endian system it should produce 1 and on a Big-endian system it should produce 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The script is known to <strong>not work<\/strong> properly on macOS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need more information on what is endianness of a system then <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endianness\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endianness\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is your place to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need a brief, very short and general info, then &#8211; if you have the number 123, Big-endian system will write this number on its harddrive (for example) like 123, Little-endian system will write it like 321.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to find if a Linux\/UNIX based system is either Big-endian or Little-endian use this script: In a Little-endian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/find-endianness-of-a-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Find endianness of a system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-system-administration","category-unix"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"nuke","author_link":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/author\/nuke\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/category\/system-administration\/linux\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Linux<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/category\/system-administration\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">System Administration<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/category\/system-administration\/unix\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">UNIX<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Linux<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">System Administration<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">UNIX<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 20.08.2021","modified":"Updated on 20.08.2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 20.08.2021 17:34","modified":"Updated on 20.08.2021 18:09"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomandaris.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}