ad
ad dumps the bytes of a file in hexadecimal
and also prints their correcponding ASCII or UTF-8 characters
(for those bytes for which isprint(3) returns true)
to standard output.
For those bytes that are not printable,
prints '.
' (dot) instead.
ad is similar to hexdump(1), od(1), and xxd(1) except that ad can also search for and highlight matching strings or numbers similar to grep(1). Like xxd(1), ad can also patch binary files.
Installation
The git repository contains only the necessary source code.
Things like configure
are derived sources and
should not be included in repositories.
If you have autoconf
, automake
, and m4
installed,
you can generate configure
yourself by doing:
autoreconf -fiv
Then follow the generic installation instructions given in INSTALL
.