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sharkdp / hexyl

A command-line hex viewer
Apache License 2.0
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Better error message when seek fails #122

Closed sharkdp closed 3 years ago

sharkdp commented 3 years ago 
> hexyl "$(which hexyl)" --skip=-5gib
Error: Failed to jump to the desired input position. This could be
caused by a negative offset that is too large or by an input that is not
seek-able (e.g. if the input comes from a pipe).

related: #114