I would like to see what the actual contents of a directory file are (not the files that are   contained within that directory).Specifically I would like to be able to do something like: od -c .I know this works (used to work?) on unix, as it is shown on page 59 of 'The Unix Programming Environment'Yet when I attempt on my version of Arch Linux I get the following:read error: Is a directoryIs there another command I should be using to inspect the bytes of a directory?
Look at the bytes in a directory?
linux;files;filesystems