I tried to find a use case for "od", wondering if it was similar to "xxd", and in doing so I found an article comparing "xxd" and "od", and their use cases are

I tried to find a use case for "od", wondering if it was similar to "xxd", and in doing so I found an article comparing "xxd" and "od", and their use cases are indeed similar. Basically, when there's no prettier way to render a file, print the bytes.