Subject: bin/5017: The -C option to hexdump
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <jnilsson@ludd.luth.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/19/1998 12:12:25
>Number: 5017
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: improvement of hexdump
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 19 03:20:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jens A Nilsson
>Organization:
>Release: NetBSD-1.3
>Environment:
System: NetBSD subzero 1.3 NetBSD 1.3 (SUBZERO) #7: Thu Jan 29 14:16:22 CET 1998 jens@subzero:/u1/NetBSD-src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SUBZERO i386
>Description:
Hexdump has a nice option in FreeBSD '-C' it would be nice to have
in the NetBSD hexdump to.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Here is the diff -u to implement '-C' option to hexdump.
diff -u /usr/src/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 hexdump-patch/hexdump.1
--- /usr/src/usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 Sun Oct 19 16:18:53 1997
+++ hexdump-patch/hexdump.1 Wed Feb 18 16:22:18 1998
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
.Nd ascii, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Op Fl bcdovx
+.Op Fl bcCdovx
.Op Fl e Ar format_string
.Op Fl f Ar format_file
.Op Fl n Ar length
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@
Display the input offset in hexadecimal, followed by sixteen
space-separated, three column, space-filled, characters of input
data per line.
+.It Fl C
+.Em Canonical hex+ASCII display.
+Display the input offset in hexadecimal, followed by sixteen
+space-separated, two column, hexadecimal bytes, followed by the
+same sixteen bytes in %_p format enclosed in ``|'' characters.
.It Fl d
.Em Two-byte decimal display.
Display the input offset in hexadecimal, followed by eight
diff -u /usr/src/usr.bin/hexdump/hexsyntax.c hexdump-patch/hexsyntax.c
--- /usr/src/usr.bin/hexdump/hexsyntax.c Sun Oct 19 16:18:55 1997
+++ hexdump-patch/hexsyntax.c Wed Feb 18 16:14:59 1998
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
char *p, **argv;
argv = *argvp;
- while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "bcde:f:n:os:vx")) != -1)
+ while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "bcCde:f:n:os:vx")) != -1)
switch (ch) {
case 'b':
add("\"%07.7_Ax\n\"");
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@
case 'c':
add("\"%07.7_Ax\n\"");
add("\"%07.7_ax \" 16/1 \"%3_c \" \"\\n\"");
+ break;
+ case 'C':
+ add("\"%08.8_Ax\n\"");
+ add("\"%08.8_ax \" 8/1 \"%02x \" \" \" 8/1 \"%02x \" "
);
+ add("\" |\" 16/1 \"%_p\" \"|\\n\"");
break;
case 'd':
add("\"%07.7_Ax\n\"");
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