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31.Dd December 7, 2003
32.Dt HEXDUMP 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm hexdump
36.Nd "dump a block of bytes to the console in hexadecimal form"
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/systm.h
39.Ft void
40.Fn hexdump "void *ptr" "int length" "const char *hdr" "int flags"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Fn hexdump
44function prints an array of bytes to the console in hexadecimal form, along with
45the
46.Tn ASCII
47representation of the bytes, if possible.
48By default, each line of
49output will start with an offset count, followed by 16 hexadecimal values,
50followed by 16
51.Tn ASCII
52characters.
53.Bl -tag -width indent
54.It Fa ptr
55Pointer to the array of bytes to print.
56It does not need to be
57.Dv NUL Ns
58-terminated.
59.It Fa length
60Number of bytes to print.
61.It Fa hdr
62Pointer to a
63.Dv NUL Ns
64-terminated character string that will be prepended to each
65line of output.
66A value of
67.Dv NULL
68implies that no header will be printed.
69.It Fa flags
70Flags for controlling the formatting of the output.
71.Bl -tag -width ".Dv HD_OMIT_COUNT"
72.It Bits 0-7
73Integer value of the number of bytes to display on each line.
74A value of 0 implies that the default value of 16 will be used.
75.It Bits 8-15
76Character
77.Tn ASCII
78value to use as the separator for the hexadecimal output.
79A value of 0 implies that the default value of 32
80.Tn ( ASCII
81space) will be used.
82.It Dv HD_OMIT_COUNT
83Do not print the offset column at the beginning of each line.
84.It Dv HD_OMIT_HEX
85Do not print the hexadecimal values on each line.
86.It Dv HD_OMIT_CHARS
87Do not print the character values on each line.
88.El
89.El
90.Sh SEE ALSO
91.Xr ascii 7
92.Sh AUTHORS
93This manual page was written by
94.An Scott Long .
95