Simon Willison’s Weblog

22nd May 2023

TIL hexdump and hexdump -C — While exploring null bytes in [this issue](https://github.com/simonw/ttok/issues/3) I learned that the `hexdump` command on macOS (and presumably other Unix systems) has a confusing default output.

Posted 22nd May 2023 at 6:01 pm

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