Output contents of a file to hexdump.md

To output the contents of a file in a human-readable hexadecimal format, you can use the cat command to read the file and pipe it to a hex-dumping utility like xxd or hexdump. Here are examples:

Using xxd:

cat <file_name> | xxd

Using hexdump:

cat <file_name> | hexdump -C

Explanation: • cat <file_name>: Outputs the contents of the file. • |: Pipes the output of the cat command to the next command. • xxd: Displays the content in a hex dump with both hexadecimal and ASCII representations. • hexdump -C: Produces a canonical hex dump, showing hexadecimal and ASCII side-by-side.

Example:

If you have a file named example.txt:

cat example.txt | xxd

or

cat example.txt | hexdump -C

Note:

You can directly use xxd or hexdump without cat, like so:

xxd <file_name> hexdump -C <file_name>