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hexyl — A simple hex viewer for the terminal. Uses colored output to distinguish different categories of byt

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Problem

How to use the hexyl command: A simple hex viewer for the terminal. Uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes. See also: od, xxd, hexdump. More information: <https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/blob/master/doc/hexyl.1.md>.

Solution

hexyl — A simple hex viewer for the terminal. Uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes. See also: od, xxd, hexdump. More information: <https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/blob/master/doc/hexyl.1.md>.

Print the hexadecimal representation of a file:

hexyl {{path/to/file}}

Print the hexadecimal representation of the first n bytes of a file:

hexyl {{[-n|--length]}} {{n}} {{path/to/file}}

Code Snippets

Print the hexadecimal representation of a file

hexyl {{path/to/file}}

Print the hexadecimal representation of the first n bytes of a file

hexyl {{[-n|--length]}} {{n}} {{path/to/file}}

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tldr-pages: common/hexyl

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