- The xxd utility is not pre-installed in most Linux distributions but can easily be installed with the default package manager.
- The following examples show some ways that xxd can be used. See the xxd man page for additional examples by typing man xxd in the command prompt.
- The xxd command allows you to create a hex dump from a file. In other words, you get basically the same output as with hexedit, but xxd only displays the output.
- All we have to do is provide the input and xxd will encode the file to stdout automatically (a handy feature to have by default for shorter input files)
- One such gem is the “xxd” command, a versatile tool designed for handling binary and hexadecimal data.
- The xxd command is used to create a hexadecimal representation (hexdump) from a binary file, or vice-versa.
- In this article, I’ll show you how to install XXD on Linux and then how to use the “xxd” command through different examples.
- xxd is a versatile command-line tool that can display both binary and hexadecimal representations of file content.
- Installing xxd on Linux
- Using xxd command
- Formatting output of xxd