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xxd is distributed with Vim.

I've never thought of xxd as being anything but a "Vim thing".

That it had its own history (1990-1998) before being pulled into Vim is a TIL for me.

Here you go:

https://github.com/vim/vim/tree/master/src/xxd

There might still be other versions of this out there, but I suspect most OS distros pick up xxd by way of packaging Vim.

So if you work on some other xxd, you're probably in a dead fork.

The man page is also from Vim:

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/doc/xxd.1

My first patch to xxd, if I were to work on it, would be to fix the man page to indicate clearly that it's the xxd bundled with Vim.




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