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freddo
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Mar 23, 2002, 3:12 AM

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Hello everybody,

I was making my new T-Shirt, and came out with this stupid one:

Can you read this?
And are you The Geek Girl i seek for?
Please, tell me now...

46 72 65 64 64 6F

and i wanted to have this text printed as an hexdump on it.

my first shot was:

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perl -ne'printf("%02X ",ord$_)for(split//);' filename

which outputs:

43 61 6E 20 79 6F 75 20 72 65 61 64 20 74 68 69 73 3F 0A 41 6E 64 20 61 72 65 20 79 6F 75 20 54 68 65 20 47 65 65 6B 20 47 69 72 6C 20 69 20 73 65 65 6B 20 66 6F 72 3F 0A 50 6C 65 61 73 65 2C 20 74 65 6C 6C 20 6D 65 20 6E 6F 77 2E 2E 2E 0A 0A 34 36 20 37 32 20 36 35 20 36 34 20 36 34 20 36 46

Can you come with a shortest way to do it (we dont care about 0D 0A or other \n)?

And what about doing the reverse?
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freddo
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Mar 23, 2002, 4:40 AM

Post #2 of 3 (48737 views)

Re: [freddo] hex dump [In reply to]	Can't Post

Damn, i just figured that:

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perl -ne'printf("%02X ",ord)for(split//);' filename

can do it too, and btw, the perldoc perlrun gives nice tricks about -F....
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mhx
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Mar 23, 2002, 7:49 AM

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Re: [freddo] hex dump [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

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perl -ne'printf("%02X ",ord)for(split//);' filename

First of all, you can get rid of another three characters by stripping all those needless parentheses and the semicolon:

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perl -ne'printf"%02X ",ord,for+split//' filename

Using -F won't help much, it's score is equal:

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perl -naF'' -e'printf"%02X ",ord,for@F' filename

But using a simple regex will save some three characters again:

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perl -ne'printf"%02X ",ord,for/./sg' filename

-- mhx

At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."

-- Frodo

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