Questions tagged [hexdump]

Why don't you see binary code when you open a binary file with text editor? For example, when I open an image with text editor, I see some weird characters and also some human readable characters; but the image should be encoded in binary.

I'm trying to visualize the bitmap of a frame buffer using hexdump, however the data is shifted left by two. Is it possible to use the hexdump (or other binary file visualization tool like xxd) formatting to shift each byte right by two for…

When I run a Hexdump using the command xxd -b "textile.txt"in OS X, the terminal prints both the binary, and the actual ASCII equivalent in the right-most column, showing the text files contents in english. If I create a simple C program which does…