bbhexdiff Open source command-line tool to invoke BBEdit’s Find Differences command on file hex dumps
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Open source command-line tool to invoke BBEdit’s Find Differences command on file hex dumps bbhexdiff is a free and open source command-line based tool that you can use to invoke BBEdit’s Find Differences command on file hex dumps on Mac OS X.Installationbbhexdiff is a Perl script uses the hexdump tool, AppleScript, and BBEdit. To install it, download the source code or copy and paste it into a text file with Unix-style line endings. Save the file in a location that is included in your PATH variable. Modify the permissions so the file is executable, like so:chmod 755 bbhexdiffNotesIf your copy of BBEdit is not named “BBEdit” (as opposed to something like “BBEdit 7.0), you will need to either rename the application or modify the bbhexdiff script to reflect the different application name.bbhexdiff uses the hexdump command-line tool because BBEdit’s Hex Dump plug-in cannot be controlled via AppleScript. If you want to modify the formatting of the hex dumps, you should modify the value of the hexdump variable. By default, bbhexdiff uses hexdump’s -C argument to create canonical hex and ASCII dumps. See the hexdump manpage for information about additional options.NOTE: If the download does not work or your browser opens the file as a web page, you will have to right click on the download link and then select "Save link as" in Firefox or "Download linked file as" in Safari. Requirements: · BB What's New in This Release: · Fix bug so you can compare files of the same name without saving the hex files. · Make sure hex names are unique in all usage cases. · Remove debugging code for printing names of hex files with -o and -n options. · Correct date of 1.0 release – yesterday was not a Monday.

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