xxd
is a utility that comes with ViM. This is a standalone fork of xxd
, a slight modernization of the C code, a slight performance increase and a drop-in replacement for xxd
. The target platform is Linux.
The xxd
utility is a command-line program widely used in Unix-like systems for creating a hexadecimal dump of a given binary file. Essentially, it converts binary data into a human-readable hexadecimal format, often for the purpose of debugging or examining the underlying data structure of files. It displays each byte of the input data as a two-digit hexadecimal number, often accompanied by its ASCII equivalent, if printable. Additionally, xxd
can reverse the process, taking a hexadecimal dump and converting it back into binary.
- License: GPL2
- Version: 1.1.0