dump - File Dump Utility

dump dumps the contents of a file to the standard output. The data is represented in two ways in the output, as numerical data dumped in a user-specified format and as character data dumped in a string:

address: data in user-specified format "data as a string"

Non-printing characters are displayed as "."s in the string. Here's the start of a hexadecimal dump of a gziped PDF file:

00000000:  1F8B0808 8309B444 00037072 6F6C6F67  ".......D..prolog"
00000010:  2D6E6F74 65732E70 646600DC FD63B825  "-notes.pdf...c.%"
00000020:  CF96E80B 2FDBB66A D9B66DD5 B26DDB36  "..../..j..m..m.6"
00000030:  6AD9B66D DBB66DDB A8B77677 DFEED3FD  "j..m..m...vw...."

Invocation:

% dump [-decimal] [-ebcdic] [-hexadecimal] [-number bytes]
       [-octal] [-skip offset] [-text] [-width numBytes]
       inputFile

where

-decimal

dumps each byte as a decimal number.

-ebcdic

specifies that the input data is EBCDIC. The numeric portion of the dump is unconverted data and the ASCII portion of the dump is converted data.

-hexadecimal

dumps every 4 bytes as a hexadecimal number. This is the default dump mode.

-number bytesToDump

specifies the number of bytes to dump.

-octal

dumps each byte as an octal number.

-skip offset

specifies the number of bytes (0..N-1) in the input file to skip before starting to dump the data.

-text

dumps each byte as text, i.e., the data is not dumped in numeric form. Each output line will appear as: address: "data as a string".

-width numBytes

changes the number of bytes (width) of input data dumped on each line of output.

file

is the file to be dumped.