busybox hexdump -R hack

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 17 21:32:02 PST 2007


On Saturday 17 November 2007 06:41, Pascal Bellard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please find attached a patch to add 'hexdump -R' a non-standard switch.
> It does the reverse of 'hexdump -Cv' ie :
> $ hexdump -Cv file.bin > file.ascii
> $ hexdump -R file.ascii > file.bin

Well, this is totally non-standard. Feature creep.

> Usefull to 'edit' binary files with an ascii editor or sed, awk...

But is too useful to ignore. Really cool.

Applied to svn, thanks.
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vda


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