On 25.01.20 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My current project is dealing with oddly formatted data. Mostly just plain
> ASCII. Progress on another aspect of my project has made this thread moot.
For the thread, there's also: $ apt-cache search bvi
bvi - binary file editor
found at: http://bvi.sourceforge.net/
But if it's mostly ASCII, with a few funnies, then I'd just vim the
file, and type ga to display the decimal, octal, and hex value of the
character under the cursor. To insert funny characters, I've found
digraphs sufficient. (Mapped more mnemonically if used often, e.g. ;e for æ)
And for a quick hex/ascii dump of a file, I've used this for over 30 years:
$ od -xc < /etc/issue
0000000 6544 6962 6e61 4720 554e 4c2f 6e69 7875
D e b i a n G N U / L i n u x
0000020 3720 5c20 206e 6c5c 0a0a
7 \ n \ l \n \n
0000032
There are options for fudging the offsets, if needed.
Erik
