On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On 11/13/2015 11:45 AM, Alex Pilon wrote: >> >> xxd's provided by vim. As convenient as it is, should a "suckless hex >> editor" really depend on that? It should be the user's choice or not to >> install vim, regardless of anybody's feeling's on this list *either* way. > > > Is there another tool that can do a reverse dump? > > Command od of sbase is halfway there--it can dump (od -Ax -tx1). If it were > enhanced to reverse dump, we could use it. > > On the other hand, it kind of sucks to reinvent the wheel. Combining > already existing tools sucks less, and xxd already exists.
tr, bc & awk? <http://www.unix.com/302404529-post3.html?s=6d1c73369fd7edd30e8ea32d935a8bc2>