Re: Suggestion hex offset(limit) support for head/tail binary mode

[Grigoriy Sokolik]

Ok, thank you!

Thanks!
Best regards,
Grigorii


On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 02:18, Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:

> On 27/06/2021 09:57, Grigoriy Sokolik wrote:
> > Dear core os maintainers community!
> >
> > Now I'm working a lot with binary data (gRPC traffic), and I found `tail
> > -c` / `head -c` / `hexdump -C` extremely useful. The only thing is that I
> > have to count offsets (limits) for tail/head manually each time relying
> on
> > hexdump's markers which are in hex numbers. It would be nice to support
> > something like, for instance, `tail -c +0x1a my_binary_dump.bin`. I even
> > could try to implement this feature myself, but first I want to get
> > approvals and advice from the community.
>
> Similar suggestions have been made for other numeric inputs,
> but the general advice is to use the standard shell syntax
> to do the conversion, which is more generally applicable.
> For example in this case it would be:
>
>    tail -c +$((0x1a)) my_binary_dump.bin
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig
>