Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 9.0.6
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to get hexdump to output a C-string with hexadecimal escapes,
like "\x68\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x0A". Not only did I never reach that result, but
I also run into error messages that don't appear to make much sense.
$ echo hello | hexdump -v -e "\"\\x\" 1/1 \"%02X\""
x68x65x6Cx6Cx6Fx0A
$ echo hello | hexdump -v -e "\"\\\\x\" 1/1 \"%02X\""
\\68\\65\\6C\\6C\\6F\\0A
$ echo hello | hexdump -v -e "1/1 \"\\x%02X\""
hexdump: %A: bad conversion character
$ echo hello | hexdump -v -e "1/1 \"\\\\x%02X\""
hexdump: %A: bad conversion character
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.25.2-4
ii debianutils 4.4+b1
ii libc6 2.19-13
ii libncurses5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1
bsdmainutils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages bsdmainutils suggests:
ii cpp 4:4.9.1-5
pn vacation <none>
ii wamerican [wordlist] 7.1-1
ii whois 5.2.2
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