show hex->bin conversion

2026-08-23 22:16:48 +00:00 · 2020-07-15 04:23:12 +00:00
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@@ -36,3 +36,13 @@ For options, such as `--length`, `--skip`, and `--offset`, see:
 ```bash
 hexyl --help
 ```
+
+### Convert hex to binary
+
+If you have some hex (say from some server logs) that you'd like to encode back
+to binary to view in hexyl, you can convert it with `xxd`:
+
+```bash
+echo '48656c6c6f210a' > foo.hex
+xxd -r -p foo.hex foo.bin
+```