Binary dump utility

This is small and simple utility to view binary dumps of any files you need. I needed it for viewing eeprom-images for my avr-microcontrollers projects. May be it would be useful for some of your purposes, either way I publishing it here.

Features:

• Show sets of bytes in binary presentation
• Skipping variable bytes from start(by args)
• Shows variable count of bytes(by args)
• Shows hexadecimal bytes values
• Shows ascii bytes values
• Shows offsets for easier file navigation
• Use stdin and stdout, so you can easily send and save any data you need

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_{This project can be used out-of-the-box for simple purposes, if you want serious tool to manage, writing binary data, this would be useless.}

How to install

$ git clone https://github.com/inickey/bindump && cd bindump
$ make
$ sudo make install

If you using Ubuntu GNU/Linux, you can install this software from my ppa, it'll be faster and easier

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inickey/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install bindump

How to uninstall

$ sudo make uninstall

How to use it?

# Dump the file
$ bindump my_file.bin

# Dump the stdin
$ cat my_file.bin | bindump

# Use pager for big files
$ cat my_big_file.bin | bindump | less

Which flags can I use?

To configure output you can use this flags:

-s      [count] Skips count of bytes from the start
-l      [count] Sets the length of bytes to show
-c      [count] Sets the count of bytes to show in one line
-A              Turn on the ASCII values near the binaries
                like 001110010[r]
-H              Turn on the hex values near the binaries
-D              Turn on the decimal values near the binaries
-S              Do not split bytes, show all together
-o              Turn on offsets in start of each line
-a              Turn on the ASCII values in ending of each line
-v              Shows version
-h              Shows help

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_{Actually it was written on-the-knee in about one hour, so I don't still know will I make any changes here or not. It is published under the free GPLv3 license, so you free to fork and change it if you need for any purpose, but I think it'll be faster and better to write your own.}