Showing posts with label hd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hd. Show all posts

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.