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cbashhexdump

Print a file in binary form (1 and 0)

In the context of a GZip decoder I need a unix tool or a C solution to print my compressed gzip file on my screen in a binary form. What I exactly need is hexdump able to print in binary instead of octal,decimal or hexadecimal.

I am pretty sure this tool exists but I can't find it :-(

EDIT I guess such editor is hard to find because the use case must not be frequent. In my case I have very small files and need for debug purpose to search for binary "patterns" such as 10010011 that may cross several bytes

Solution 
  • perl -ne 'print unpack(B8,$_),$/for split//' FILE

    or to have 8 elements in a line

    perl -ne 'print unpack(B8,$_),++$i%8?" ":"\n"for split//;END{print"\n"}'

    without linebreaks

    perl -ne 'print unpack(B8,$_)for split//' FILE