Manipulating Binary Data with Bash
Conclusion
The versatile Bash shell offers several utilities that allow you to output, transform, and manipulate binary values. This article introduced you to the xxd
and bc
commands. You also learned how to add these binary commands to your custom Bash functions to build your own tools for performing practical tasks like decoding URLs and calculating subnet masks.
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