sunxi-fexc(1)

πŸ’– sunxi-fexc β€” the sunxi-fexc man page, bestie edition πŸ’–

okay so welcome to sunxi-fexc(1), the lil tool that flips your Allwinner board config back and forth between the human-readable .fex text and the spicy binary script.bin. it's giving translator. it's giving bilingual icon. let's go πŸ¦‹


✨ NAME ✨

sunxi-fexc β€” convert between .fex files and the binary representation


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

sunxi-fexc [ -vq ] [ -I <infmt> ] [ -O <outfmt> ] [ <input> [ <output>
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fex2bin [ -vq ] [ <input> [ <output> ]]
bin2fex [ -vq ] [ <input> [ <output> ]]

πŸ’… DESCRIPTION πŸ’…

sunxi-fexc converts back and forth between .fex files and the script.bin binary representation. yes bestie, both directions, it's a two-way street and she's fluent in both πŸ’–

the aliases bin2fex and fex2bin convert a script.bin to a .fex file and a .fex file to a script.bin file respectively. so like, pick your fighter based on which way you're going 🧚


πŸ‘‘ OPTIONS πŸ‘‘

  • -v β€” verbose mode, she's gonna tell you what she's doing, main character energy
  • -q β€” quiet mode, she's gonna zip it and just do the thing 🀫
  • -I <infmt> β€” set the input format to <infmt>, so she knows what she's reading
  • -O <outfmt> β€” set the output format to <outfmt>, so she knows what she's writing
  • <input> β€” the input file, where the good stuff comes from
  • <output> β€” the output file, where the good stuff goes

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

https://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-tools#sunxi-fexc_and_wrappers

like literally go read it, iykyk ✨


πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> β€” thank you king, we are obsessed 🫢


and that's the whole page bestie, no cap, you ate this πŸŽ€ this little gem is from sunxi-fexc 1.4.2, dated 28 Jan 2023 β€” so go forth and convert, you gorgeous binary whisperer πŸ’…πŸŒΈ