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# 8  
Old 05-21-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
That newline is absolutely fine.

I does work for me:
Code:
$ od -c file
0000000   3   6   3   8   3   4   5   7   4   e   2   9   2   c   2   0
0000020  \n
0000021

Code:
$ sed 's/../& /g' file
36 38 34 57 4e 29 2c 20

thanks. there was a space in front of those hex codes.

thanks, yoda!
# 9  
Old 05-21-2013
Code:
# cat file|echo $(fold -w2)

Code:
 sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\1 \2 \3 \4 \5 \6 \7 /' file

Enjoy, Havefun!.
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