diff --git a/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml
index 21f312cfb4..2e3427a612 100644
--- a/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/od/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ byteorder = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 half = { workspace = true }
 rustix = { workspace = true, features = ["stdio"] }
-uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser-size"] }
+uucore = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "parser-size", "pipes"] }
 fluent = { workspace = true }
 libc.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/src/uu/od/src/multifile_reader.rs b/src/uu/od/src/multifile_reader.rs
index 5be2150815..66e02cf870 100644
--- a/src/uu/od/src/multifile_reader.rs
+++ b/src/uu/od/src/multifile_reader.rs
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ impl io::Read for CurrentReader {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
+impl rustix::fd::AsFd for CurrentReader {
+    fn as_fd(&self) -> rustix::fd::BorrowedFd<'_> {
+        match self {
+            Self::File(f) => f.as_fd(),
+            Self::Stdin(s) => s.0,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 // MultifileReader - concatenate all our input, file or stdin.
 pub struct MultifileReader<'a> {
     ni: Vec<InputSource<'a>>,
@@ -186,8 +196,17 @@ fn skip_in_file(curr: &mut CurrentReader, n_skip: u64) -> io::Result<u64> {
             }
         }
     }
-    let read = uucore::io::read_and_discard(curr, n_skip, SKIP_BUFFER_SIZE)?;
-    Ok(n_skip - read)
+    #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
+    match uucore::pipes::discard_n_bytes(&curr, n_skip as usize) {
+        Ok(spliced) => Ok(n_skip - spliced as u64),
+        Err(spliced) => {
+            let read =
+                uucore::io::read_and_discard(curr, n_skip - spliced as u64, SKIP_BUFFER_SIZE)?;
+            Ok(n_skip - spliced as u64 - read)
+        }
+    }
+    #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android")))]
+    Ok(n_skip - uucore::io::read_and_discard(curr, n_skip, SKIP_BUFFER_SIZE)?)
 }
 
 /// Seek `f` forward by `n` bytes. Returns `Ok(true)` if the seek happened, or
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
index 02c13dc8ba..8dd50b50d5 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
@@ -181,6 +181,35 @@ pub fn send_n_bytes(input: impl AsFd, target: impl AsFd, n: u64) -> std::io::Res
     Ok(bytes_written)
 }
 
+/// discard `n` bytes by splice
+/// return actually discarded bytes
+/// Err(b) means we discarded b bytes, but we should try to discarding remaining bytes by read
+#[inline]
+pub fn discard_n_bytes(fd: impl AsFd, n: usize) -> Result<usize, usize> {
+    let mut discarded = 0;
+    let dev_null = dev_null().ok_or(0_usize)?;
+    while discarded < n
+        && let Ok(s) = splice(&fd, &dev_null, n - discarded)
+    {
+        if s == 0 {
+            return Ok(discarded);
+        }
+        discarded += s;
+    }
+    // else, input is not a pipe
+    let (pipe_read, pipe_write) = pipe::<false>().map_err(|_| discarded)?;
+    while discarded < n
+        && let Ok(s @ 1..) = splice(&fd, &pipe_write, n - discarded)
+    {
+        discarded += s;
+        // pipe to null is not blocked. So this returns the same length at most cases
+        // next splice does not hang if we discarded 1+ pages
+        splice(&pipe_read, &dev_null, s).map_err(|_| discarded)?;
+    }
+
+    Ok(discarded)
+}
+
 /// Return verified /dev/null
 ///
 /// `splice` to /dev/null is faster than `read` when we skip or count the non-seekable input