/hdump

file viewer based on hexdump from bsdmainutils

Primary LanguageC

hdump 2.2

Fast, simple and portable hexadecimal/ASCII
dumper for binary files, written in ANSI C.

BUID
 $ make

USAGE
 $ hdump [-c columns] [-s skip] [-n length] file

OPTIONS
 -c   : number of columns to print dump (default: 16)
 -s   : number of bytes to be skipped / start byte
 -n   : length of bytes to read / minimum number of bytes to print
 -v   : show version and author banner
 -h   : show usage

Prefixing numbers with '0x' make hdump use it as hexadecimal.

EXAMPLES

 Print only the first 16 bytes of file /bin/ls:
  $ hdump -n 16 /bin/ls
  $ hdump -n 0x10 /bin/ls

 Start at byte 0xff and print a maximum of 32 bytes after:
  $ hdump -s 0xff -n 32 /bin/ls