Monday, 30 May 2022

Alias for hexdump for canonical output

The man page for hexdump from util-linux states:

-C, --canonical

Canonical hex+ASCII display. Display the input offset in hexadecimal, followed by sixteen space-separated, two-column, hexadecimal bytes, followed by the same sixteen bytes in %_p format enclosed in '|' characters. Invoking the program as hd implies this option.

This also happens to be my preferred format for working with microprocessor code. However my Linux distro's package chose not to provide a link or alias from hd to hexdump.

No matter, I just made a symlink called hd in my private bin directory to /usr/bin/hexdump and it works as described.

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