# hexdump

> An ASCII, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump.

- Print the hexadecimal representation of a file:

`hexdump {{file}}`

- Display the input offset in hexadecimal and its ASCII representation in two columns:

`hexdump -C {{file}}`

- Display the hexadecimal representation of a file, but interpret only n bytes of the input:

`hexdump -C -n{{number_of_bytes}} {{file}}`