#!/bin/bash # Read either the first argument or from stdin (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6980090/bash-read-from-file-or-stdin) cat "${1:-/dev/stdin}" | \ # Convert binary to hex using xxd in plain hexdump style xxd -ps | \ # Put spaces between each pair of hex characters sed -E 's/(..)/\1 /g' | \ # Merge lines tr -d '\n'