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sharkdp / hexyl

A command-line hex viewer
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Squeeze zero rows #53

Closed moshohayeb closed 5 years ago

moshohayeb commented 5 years ago

A useful feature hexdump is the ability to compress contigous rows of 0s with a *

dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024k count=1 mkswap swapfile hexdump swapfile

0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000400 0001 0000 00ff 0000 0000 0000 5dd8 a838 0000410 6fe7 d247 cc9b 6af5 a41d 50da 0000 0000 0000420 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000ff0 0000 0000 0000 5753 5041 5053 4341 3245 0001000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 0100000

I was wondering if this is something hexyl can implement

sharkdp commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the feedback.

I will personally not have the time to implement this, but that sounds like a useful feature!

sharkdp commented 5 years ago

Implemented in #59 by @awidegreen.