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oguz-ismail2 8 hours ago

How is `xxd -i' terrible?

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mgaunard 8 hours ago | parent [-]

It's still lacking content that goes before/after the output.

Just write a Python script that does the whole thing.

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oguz-ismail2 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Don't know what you mean, it works fine here. Python is too large and unreliable a dependency for something so trivial (which can be accomplished using standard POSIX utilities if need be).

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astrobe_ 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, even writing this utility in C is trivial and has 0 extra dependency for a pure C/C++ project. Avoiding #embed also removes the dependency to a C++23 capable compiler, which might not be available in uncommon scenarios.

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jcalvinowens 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Python is pretty much mandatory for Linux systems nowadays, unless you're dealing with something really minimalist or trying to be very portable it's safe to rely on.

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oguz-ismail2 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> it's safe to rely on

Is there any guarantee they won't break backwards compatibility again?

	▲	jcalvinowens 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wrote this almost ten years ago and it still works fine: https://github.com/jcalvinowens/diveutils/blob/master/consta... Arguably it could be a little C helper, but I wanted this particular piece of the project to be more accessible so I used a scripting language.