Monday, 24 October 2011

hexdump to ASCII

hexdump to ASCII

I've a file with which contains the dump of all the members of a structure in hexadecimal format. where each line contains 4 bytes followed by a newline. Now I want to convert this HEX dump to
ASCII. I've tried hexdump(1M) to achieve this but haven't been successful so far.
I'm invoking hexdump as:

[root@localhost]# hexdump -e ' "%s" ' mydump
hexdump: %s requires a precision or a byte count.

<snip from man hexdump>
"A format string contains any number of format units, separated by whitespace. A format unit contains up to three items: an iteration count, a byte count, and a format."

"A byte count or field precision is required for each ''s'' conversion character"
<snip from man hexdump>

I'm not sure how to provide this precision value.

-Amit

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