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vram22 on June 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized ou...

$ od -cx file

or

$ other_command_or_pipeline | od -cx

is from early versions of Unix. Prints both character and hexadecimal representation of each byte in the input.

$ man od

lytedev on June 17, 2023 [–]

This isn't nearly as pretty and usable as hexyl's output IMO, but always awesome to have the more readily available method!

vram22 on June 17, 2023 | [–]

Thanks. Yes, od's ubiquity on Unix was the reason why I mentioned it.

And right, it's output has issues for some uses.

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