xxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form.
Usage
Displaying available options
- xxd –help
- man xxd
1. Converting a file to hex
- cat vk9-file.txt
- file vk9-file.txt
2. run xxd
- xxd vk9-file.txt
3. Skipping lines, skipping the first line
- xxd -s 0x10 vk9-file.txt
Omit the last line
- xxd -s -0x10 vk9-file.txt
4. Set a limit length, print 10 bytes
- xxd -l 0x10 vk9-file.txt
5. Set the number of hex columns to display
- xxd -c 2 vk9-file.txt
6. Producing binary dump
- xxd -b vk9-file.txt
7. Reverting from Hex
- xxd vk9-file.txt > vk9.hex
- cat vk9.hex
- xxd -r vk9.hex
