ad

ad dumps the bytes of a file in hexadecimal and also prints their correcponding ASCII or UTF-8 characters (for those bytes for which isprint(3) returns true) to standard output. For those bytes that are not printable, prints '.' (dot) instead.

ad is similar to hexdump(1), od(1), and xxd(1) except that ad can also search for and highlight matching strings or numbers similar to grep(1). Like xxd(1), ad can also patch binary files.

Installation

The git repository contains only the necessary source code. Things like configure are derived sources and should not be included in repositories. If you have autoconf, automake, and m4 installed, you can generate configure yourself by doing:

./bootstrap

then follow the generic installation instructions given in INSTALL.

If you would like to generate the developer documentation, you will also need Doxygen; then do:

make doc                            # or: make docs