1nbdkit-swab-filter(1)               NBDKIT               nbdkit-swab-filter(1)
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NAME

6       nbdkit-swab-filter - nbdkit filter for swapping byte order
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SYNOPSIS

9        nbdkit --filter=swab PLUGIN [PLUGIN-ARGS...] [swab-bits=8|16|32|64]
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DESCRIPTION

12       "nbdkit-swab-filter" is a filter for nbdkit(1) which swaps bytes in the
13       underlying plugin.
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15       One use for this is to read disk images which were formatted on the
16       Atari Falcon, where the IDE controller is wired in reverse order.
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EXAMPLE

19   Swap bytes from a disk image
20        nbdkit --filter=swab file file=disk.img
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22       The above command serves the disk image disk.img, swapping even and odd
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25        disk.img   0   1   2   3   4   5 ...
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27          output   1   0   3   2   5   4 ...
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29       This filter truncates the size of the plugin down to the alignment
30       determined by swab-bits (since operating on an unaligned tail would be
31       awkward).  If you need to round the image size up instead to access the
32       last few bytes, combine this filter with nbdkit-truncate-filter(1);
33       fortunately, sector-based disk images are already suitably sized.
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35       Note that this filter fails operations where the offset or count are
36       not aligned to the swab-bits boundaries; if you need byte-level access,
37       apply the nbdkit-blocksize-filter(1) before this one, to get read-
38       modify-write access to individual bytes.
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PARAMETERS

41       swab-bits=8
42           This turns off the filter.
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44       swab-bits=16
45           This is the default setting which swaps pairs of bytes.  This is
46           suitable when reading and writing to Atari Falcon drives.
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48       swab-bits=32
49           This swaps the endianness of each 4 byte word in the disk, ie:
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51             input    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
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53            output    3   2   1   0   7   6   5   4
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55       swab-bits=64
56           This swaps the endianness of each 8 byte word in the disk, ie:
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58             input    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7
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60            output    7   6   5   4   3   2   1   0
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62           This can be used to make nbdkit-pattern-plugin(1) little endian
63           instead of big endian.
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FILES

66       $filterdir/nbdkit-swab-filter.so
67           The filter.
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69           Use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $filterdir.
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VERSION

72       "nbdkit-swab-filter" first appeared in nbdkit 1.22.
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SEE ALSO

75       nbdkit(1), nbdkit-file-plugin(1), nbdkit-pattern-plugin(1),
76       nbdkit-filter(3), nbdkit-blocksize-filter(1).
77       nbdkit-truncate-filter(1).
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AUTHORS

80       François Revol
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83       Copyright (C) 2020 François Revol
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LICENSE

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116nbdkit-1.36.2                     2023-11-26             nbdkit-swab-filter(1)
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