A colorized command-line hex dump utility similar to Pwntool's phd command written in Rust. This was mostly an exercise in learning rust, but I was also interested in something a little faster than the phd tool which can be a bit slow on larger files that wasn't the normal unix hexdump command, which lacks colorization.
For example, if you were to hexdump /bin/bash (1.1M); on my system phd takes 31.349s. 0xdump on the other hand does it in 2.625s. I'm not sure what slows down phd so much. My guess is it has something to do with python's buffering of printing output, but i'm not 100% sure on that. However, 0xdump will do it a little bit faster which makes it nicer for day to day use and compiles for windows as well as a standalone exe so you won't need the entire framework just for that functionalilty.
However it is worth noting that this application will be in the ballpark of 791 kb once built, so there is that trade-off.
A pre-compiled version of the application in a zip file can be found in the release tab on this repository.
The application can be built using cargo build --release. The resulting binary will be found in target/release/.
A make file is included in this repo. This will build the binary for release and run strip against it to reduce the binary size.
- Compile:
make - Install 0xdump:
make install
This application uses the following formatting for coloring bytes in the hex dump
| Color | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Default Shell text color | Printable ASCII Text |
| Grey | Null Byte |
| Red | Carriage Return or Line Feed |
| Green | 0xff |
| Blue | Non-Printable Byte not handled by the above colors |
0xdump Help Screen
0xdump vs phd Output
0xdump Reading From Stdin
phd and 0xdump Benchmarks Against /bin/bash