HEX2BIN(1)

💖 HEX2BIN(1) 💖

ok so bestie, we're in the General Commands Manual section, and today's main character is hex2bin. she's small, she's simple, she's iconic. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

hex2bin — convert hexadecimal to the encoded values

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hex2bin

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no args, no flags, no drama. she just is 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea. hex2bin reads from its standard input, and while she's reading she's literally ignoring any byte which isn't a valid hexadecimal digit. like, not a hex digit? not her problem. blocked. deleted. she's not even acknowledging it exists 🙈

then — and this is the part that eats — she takes any two successive hexadecimal digits and combines them into the corresponding byte, which she outputs to her standard output. two digits in, one byte out, slay.

and the way she's ✨particular✨: only complete bytes are output. so if you hand her an odd number of hexadecimal digits as input, the last digit gets dropped. not merged, not padded, just… dropped. gone. she said one digit is not a byte and i will not be doing charity work. 💀

bestie pls count your hex digits before you send them in, an odd one is just gonna get ghosted 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

This program has no options.

ngl she has zero options and zero notes. no flags, no config, no settings menu. she woke up flawless and stayed that way. periodt. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• infnoise(8).

this whole page was from June 22 2018 — yeah she's been serving the same simple, perfect energy since 2018 and honestly? timeless. no cap. 🫶✨💖