I have xxd on my FreeBSD setup. uname -rms FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p19 amd64 Althoug...

laumars · on Sept 10, 2013

It maybe in ports, but it's not part of the base install:

    $ xxd
    xxd: Command not found.
    $ uname -rms
    FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64

edit: fixed typo where I put xdd instead of xxd

D9u · on Sept 10, 2013

I didn't add xxd on my local FBSD (installed last night) setup, and my remote FBSD shell has xxd installed by default...

    $ uname -rms
    FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p7 amd64

    $ xxd -v
    xxd V1.10 27oct98 by Juergen Weigert

Perhaps different builds have different things included?

laumars · on Sept 10, 2013

No, it installs as part of vim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361210

D9u · on Sept 10, 2013

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Improved_hex_editing

You're right, xxd is included with vim, but as an external program.

Vim provides this capability through the external program xxd, which is included by default in standard distributions of Vim.

My pedantic nature was hung up on the release dates of the respective programs, as xxd predates vim on Unix.

pessimizer · on Sept 10, 2013

s/xdd/xxd/g

laumars · on Sept 10, 2013

Sorry, that was a typo when posting on here. I did originally run it as xxd:

    root@primus:/usr/ports # xxd
    xxd: Command not found.

edit:

It doesn't show up in my ports either:

    root@primus:/usr/ports # make search name=xxd
    Port:   textproc/xxdiff
    Moved:
    Date:   2013-07-26
    Reason: Has expired: Depends on Qt 3.x

    Port:   textproc/xxdiff-scripts
    Moved:
    Date:   2013-07-26
    Reason: Has expired: Depends on Qt 3.x

Obviously xxdiff is a different (if you pardon the pun) utility, but xxd should show up in that list also.

edit 2:

Another comment on here might explain why you're seeing xxd and I'm not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360814 (it's not a separate utility, it's part of vim)

Since I didn't install vim on that box (just use basic vi), xxd wouldn't have installed as part of it. Where as in a jail on the same box, xxd does exist:

    root@primus:/usr/ports # which vim xxd
    vim: Command not found.
    xxd: Command not found.
    
    root@primus:/usr/ports # jexec 1 which vim xxd
    /usr/local/bin/vim
    /usr/local/bin/xxd

D9u · on Sept 10, 2013

    $ whereis xxd
    xxd: /usr/local/bin/xxd /usr/local/man/man1/xxd.1.gz

I don't see xxd anywhere in my ports tree.

Haha... What a trip. This is the sort of thing that I'll end up wasting half a day trying to get an answer to.

laumars · on Sept 10, 2013

You wont see it in your ports tree because it's part of vim:

    $ grep xxd /usr/ports/editors/vim/pkg-plist
    bin/xxd