Re: Bug#792903: ITP: hdump -- Hexadecimal and ASCII dumper for binary files

[Paulo <kretcheu@gmail.com>]

Hi Simon,

On 20-07-2015 04:28, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 20/07/15 00:04, Paulo Kretcheu wrote:
> >    Description     : Hexadecimal and ASCII dumper for binary files
>
> Does this have significant advantages over these tools that are already
> in the archive and likely to be near-ubiquitous on GNU systems?
>
> * od -t x1 (part of coreutils, and a subset of its functionality is
>    standardized in POSIX)
> * hd, aka hexdump (part of bsdmainutils)
> * xxd (part of vim-common)

Yes, you're right, there are other tools, but in my opinion, this 
program can interest people with less technical skils because of it 
output design and simplicity.

> I personally prefer xxd, because it gives reasonable output (hex +
> ASCII) without requiring special command-line options, and can also be
> used "in reverse" to patch or create binaries from hex input.
>
> >     - Number of columns adjustable by constant in the source.
>
> That's not much of an advantage in a binary distribution like Debian.
> xxd can adjust this at runtime with the -c/-cols command-line option.
>
>      S

My mistake! Columns, can be defined by command line option -c and also 
bytes to skip, option -s, and length of bytes to read, option -n.

Regards,
Kretcheu