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# hexdump
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> Display file contents in hexadecimal, decimal, octal, or ASCII.
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> Useful for inspecting dump file, binary data, or debug output.
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> More information: <https://manned.org/man/freebsd/hexdump.1>.
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- Print the hexadecimal representation of a file, replacing duplicate lines by `*`:
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`hexdump {{path/to/file}}`
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- Display the input offset in hexadecimal and its ASCII representation in two columns:
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`hexdump -C {{path/to/file}}`
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- Display the hexadecimal representation of a file, but interpret only a specific number of bytes of the input:
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`hexdump -C -n {{number_of_bytes}} {{path/to/file}}`
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- Verbose - no suppression by `*` on duplicate lines:
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`hexdump -v {{path/to/file}}`
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- Format output using printf-like format string:
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`hexdump -e '{{element_format .. end_format}}' {{path/to/file}}`
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