ad dumps the bytes of a file in hexadecimal
and also prints their correcponding ASCII
or UTF-8
characters
(for those bytes for which isprint(3) returns true)
to standard output.
For those bytes that are not printable,
prints '.' (dot) instead.
ad is similar to hexdump(1), od(1), and xxd(1) except that ad can also search for and highlight matching strings or numbers similar to grep(1). Like xxd(1), ad can also patch binary files.
The git repository contains only the necessary source code.
Things like configure are derived sources and
should not be included in repositories.
If you have
autoconf,
automake,
and
m4
installed,
you can generate configure yourself by doing:
./bootstrap
then follow the generic installation instructions given in
INSTALL.
If you would like to generate the developer documentation, you will also need Doxygen; then do:
make doc # or: make docs