od Alternatives

od is described as 'Command on various operating systems for displaying ("dumping") data in various human-readable output formats. The name acronym for "octal dump" since it defaults to printing in the octal data format' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to od for Linux, BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows. The best od alternative is hexyl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like od are heksa, hexdump, huxdemp and hexxy.

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    hexyl

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    hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

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    • Linux
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  2. heksa

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    CLI hex dumper with colors.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  4. hexdump

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    The hexdump utility is a filter which displays the specified files, or standard input if no files are specified, in a user-specified format.

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    • Linux
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