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Asked: 2026-05-23T02:42:30+00:00

I want to convert binary data to hexadecimal, just that, no fancy formatting and

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I want to convert binary data to hexadecimal, just that, no fancy formatting and all. hexdump seems too clever, and it “overformats” for me. I want to take x bytes from the /dev/random and pass them on as hexadecimal.

Preferably I’d like to use only standard Linux tools, so that I don’t need to install it on every machine (there are many).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Perhaps use xxd:

    % xxd -l 16 -p /dev/random
193f6c54814f0576bc27d51ab39081dc
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