From: AJ ONeal <aj@therootcompany.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 04:23:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: show hex->bin conversion
X-Git-Url: https://git.josue.xyz/?p=webi-installers%2F.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d56006ef48ee1d3f600dbca3529e20b3a1846b9d

show hex->bin conversion
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diff --git a/hexyl/README.md b/hexyl/README.md
index 2628f29..2cef122 100644
--- a/hexyl/README.md
+++ b/hexyl/README.md
@@ -36,3 +36,13 @@ For options, such as `--length`, `--skip`, and `--offset`, see:
 ```bash
 hexyl --help
 ```
+
+### Convert hex to binary
+
+If you have some hex (say from some server logs) that you'd like to encode back
+to binary to view in hexyl, you can convert it with `xxd`:
+
+```bash
+echo '48656c6c6f210a' > foo.hex
+xxd -r -p foo.hex foo.bin
+```