#!/usr/bin/perl # dump.pl -- create hex dump of input file. use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; use Getopt::Std; use Config; my $filename = $ARGV[0]; my $output = $ARGV[1]; my $buffer; my $address = 0; my $old_fh; $0 =~ s|.*[/\\]||; my $usage = < $output" ) || die "Couldn't open $output for output: $!\n"; $old_fh = select(OUT); } die "No filename specified\n" unless ($filename); open( FILE, $filename ) || die "Couldn't open $filename: $!\n"; binmode FILE; while ( read( FILE, $buffer, 16 ) ) { printf( "%08x: %s | %-16s\n", $address, hexstr($buffer), makesafe($buffer) ); $address += 16; } close(FILE); if ($output) { select($old_fh) if ($output); close(OUT); } sub makesafe { my @list = unpack( 'C*', $_[0] ); foreach (@list) { if ( $_ < 32 || $_ > 126 ) { $_ = 46; } } my $result = pack( 'C*', @list ); return $result; } sub hexstr { my @list = unpack( 'H32', $_[0] ); my $result = sprintf( "%-32s", $list[0] ); my $expanded; while ( $result =~ /(..)/g ) { $expanded .= $1 . ' '; } return $expanded; } =pod =head1 NAME dump - output a formated hex dump of a selected file =head1 SYNOPSIS B B<-h> B filename B file_in file_out =head1 DESCRIPTION This utility converts a file into the formated hexidecimal representation of itself. Output is to either STDOUT or to a specified file. =head1 EXAMPLES C:\dump dump.pl creates: 00000000: 23 21 2f 75 73 72 2f 62 69 6e 2f 70 65 72 6c 20 | #!/usr/bin/perl 00000010: 2d 77 0a 23 20 64 75 6d 70 2e 70 6c 20 2d 2d 20 | -w.# dump.pl -- 00000020: 63 72 65 61 74 65 20 68 65 78 20 64 75 6d 70 20 | create hex dump 00000030: 6f 66 20 69 6e 70 75 74 20 66 69 6c 65 2e 0a 0a | of input file... 00000040: 75 73 65 20 73 74 72 69 63 74 3b 0a 75 73 65 20 | use strict;.use 00000050: 77 61 72 6e 69 6e 67 73 3b 0a 0a 6d 79 20 24 66 | warnings;..my $f . . . 00000390: 64 65 64 20 2e 3d 20 24 31 2e 27 20 27 3b 0a 09 | ded .= $1.' ';.. 000003a0: 7d 0a 09 72 65 74 75 72 6e 20 24 65 78 70 61 6e | }..return $expan 000003b0: 64 65 64 3b 0a 7d | ded;.} C:\dump dump.pl out.txt creates: the file out.txt as above... C:\dump -h shows: command line usage =head1 SEE ALSO coredump, divination, entrails =head1 BUGS C:\dump filename > outfile won't work if this is made a dos batch file... =head1 AUTHOR Hugh S. Myers hsmyers@sdragons.com =cut __END__