I've binary file consisting double float (8 bytes) or just float (4 bytes) value which was generated in the following way: $ python -c $'from struct import pack\nwith open("file.bin", "wb") as f: ...

Say we have some arbitrary literals in a file that we need to replace with some other literal. Normally, we'd just reach for sed(1) or awk(1) and code something like: sed "s/$target/$replacement...

I am using Catfish to find files containing certain text. Some of the files found instead of plain text contain something which looks like a hex dump: 3c3f 7068 700a 0a66 756e 6374 696f 6e20 7573 ...

This question was out there for a while and I thought I should offer some bonus points if I can get it to work. What did I do… Recently at work, I wrote a parser that would convert a binary file...

I need to use a script based upon xxd, but it's not installed on my Fedora 21: $ xxd bash: xxd: command not found So I tried without success to search and install it: $ yum install xxd (fails) ...

Create a file named as test containing the following content: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef I want to remove the first 0 with the use of xxd. Open it with vim -b test then run :%!xxd inside v...

I am analyzing hex data from binary data dumps from a basic command-line program of mine. I'm basically dumping the exact contents of a struct (a large array of structs, actually) to a text file. ...

I'm trying to understand how ID3 tags work, so, after reading some documentation, I started to look at some mp3's raw data. Vim is usually my editor of choice, so, after some googling, I found out ...

In my makefile I have the following target, which "compiles" text/HTML resources into unsigned char arrays using xxd -i. I wrap the result in an anonymous namespace and header guards for multiple-...