xxd

SafeHex dump

xxd <file> | head

Shows hex+ASCII — inspect BOMs, line endings and magic bytes. -r converts a dump back to binary.

Examples

xxd -l 16 data.binFirst 16 bytes

Syntax

xxd [-l len] [-r] <file>

Before you run it

Read only.

Related commands

fileIdentify file type
stringsExtract strings from binaries
catPrint file contents

The same reference, with no signal at all

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