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authorRoger Knecht2022-09-03 13:15:04 +0000
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cmd: xxd: add new command
Add xxd command to print file content as hexdump to standard out Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Roger Knecht <rknecht@pm.me>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+:
+
+xxd command
+===============
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+::
+
+ xxd <interface> <dev[:part]> <file>
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+The xxd command prints the file content as hexdump to standard out.
+
+interface
+ interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....)
+
+dev
+ device number
+
+part
+ partition number, defaults to 1
+
+file
+ path to file
+
+Example
+-------
+
+Here is the output for a example text file:
+
+::
+
+ => xxd mmc 0:1 hello
+ 00000000: 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a 00 01 02 03 hello world.....
+ 00000010: 04 05 ..
+ =>
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The xxd command is only available if CONFIG_CMD_XXD=y.
+
+Return value
+------------
+
+The return value $? is set to 0 (true) if the file is readable, otherwise it returns a non-zero error code.