big-endian, little-endian, byte order, CPU

Source http://serverfault.com/questions/163487/how-to-tell-if-a-linux-system-is-big-endian-or-little-endian

Voir https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

On a Big Endian-System (Solaris on SPARC)

$ echo -n I | od -to2 | head -n1 | cut -f2 -d" " | cut -c6 
0

On a little endian system (Linux on x86)

$ echo -n I | od -to2 | head -n1 | cut -f2 -d" " | cut -c6 
1