Viewing Binary Data

Paul Watson pwatson at redlinepy.com
Sun Jan 8 13:38:38 EST 2006


Cuyler wrote:
> I would like to display a file in its binary form (1s and 0s), but I'm
> having no luck... Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

If you are on a UNIX system, or on Windows with Cygwin, you can use the 
'od' command to dump a file in hex or octal.

	man od
	od -Ax -tx1



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