swab

[From the mnemonic for the {PDP-11} `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the dd(1) option conv=swab (see {dd})]

1. vt. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a file
2. n. The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it. See also {big-endian}, {little-endian}, {middle-endian}, {bytesexual}.

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