NAME
peek - copies a byte sequence from a file

SYNOPSIS
peek [ -h[bwl] ] file [ offset [ length ]]

DESCRIPTION
Peek advances offset bytes into file and copies the next length
bytes to standard output. If unspecified, offset defaults to zero,
and length defaults to the number of bytes in file minus offset.

The -h option causes peek to write a hexadecimal representation of
the data to standard output. The data is formatted as a sequence
of bytes, words (shorts), or longs according to the suboption b, w,
or l; b is the default.

DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 if successful, 1 if an error was detected, or 2 if
an EOF was detected before length bytes could be read from file.

SEE ALSO
poke(1), od(1)