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hex dump tools

Posted Feb 20, 2007 4:01 UTC (Tue) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
Parent article: CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101 (Linux.com)

Just checking a client's SuSE 10.2 system, and I find no less than three tools for doing file dumps: the aforementioned hexdump (part of the util-linux package), also od (part of coreutils), and xxd (comes with vim, of all things!)

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hex dump tools

Posted Feb 20, 2007 6:27 UTC (Tue) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link]

Emacs also comes with hexdumper called hexl, tucked away under libexec.