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HEXDUMP(3)		     Library Functions Manual		      HEXDUMP(3)

NAME
     hexdump -- dump a block of bytes to standard out in hexadecimal form

LIBRARY
     System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <libutil.h>

     void
     hexdump(void *ptr, int length, const char *hdr, int flags);

DESCRIPTION
     The hexdump() function prints an array of bytes to standard out in hexadec-
     imal  form,  along with the ASCII representation of the bytes, if possible.
     By default, each line of output will start with an offset	count,	followed
     by 16 hexadecimal values, followed by 16 ASCII characters.

     ptr     Pointer  to  the  array  of bytes to print.  It does not need to be
	     NUL-terminated.

     length  Number of bytes to print.

     hdr     Pointer to a NUL-terminated character string that will be prepended
	     to each line of output.  A value of NULL  implies	that  no  header
	     will be printed.

     flags   Flags for controlling the formatting of the output.

	     Bits 0-7	    Integer  value  of the number of bytes to display on
			    each line.	A value of 0 implies  that  the  default
			    value of 16 will be used.

	     Bits 8-15	    Character  ASCII  value  to use as the separator for
			    the hexadecimal output.  A value of 0  implies  that
			    the default value of 32 (ASCII space) will be used.

	     HD_OMIT_COUNT  Do	not  print the offset column at the beginning of
			    each line.

	     HD_OMIT_HEX    Do not print the hexadecimal values on each line.

	     HD_OMIT_CHARS  Do not print the character values on each line.

SEE ALSO
     ascii(7), sbuf_hexdump(9)

HISTORY
     The hexdump() function first appeared in FreeBSD 6.4.

AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by Scott Long.

FreeBSD 15.1			   May 8, 2020			      HEXDUMP(3)

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