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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

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