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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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