hexdump

An ASCII, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump. More information: https://manned.org/hexdump.

• Print the hexadecimal representation of a file, replacing duplicate lines by '*':

hexdump path/to/file

• Display the input offset in hexadecimal and its ASCII representation in two columns:

hexdump -C path/to/file

• Display the hexadecimal representation of a file, but interpret only n bytes of the input:

hexdump -C -nnumber_of_bytes path/to/file

• Don't replace duplicate lines with '*':

hexdump --no-squeezing path/to/file